Music of Jamaica

The representation of women’s bodies has long been a source of controversy in America media. For years, images of slender, tan, and digitally altered bodies have been bombarded into the minds of our young women through television and movie screens. In the past two decades, sexual substance on TV and in the films has turned out to be more inescapable and unequivocal. Eating disorders and body image issues plague young women at an alarming rate, and girls feel more pressure to achieve a “perfect body”

In working the diaspora, Frederick Knight explains the connection between the factors that impacted the slavery in the new world versus how they were in Africa. African labor skills and knowledge were important factors in the African slave trade in the Anglo-American colonies. Africans slaves were able to keep a lot of their culture and influenced the development of the Anglo-American world. Agriculture is one of the largest areas of slave labor, mainly because of the amount of profit it could generate

their rich, unique culture with music and a performance of the arrival by the first settlers at the port. Boxing Day (Dec 26) and New Year’s Day (Jan 1), both Garifuna and non-Carib blacks celebrate the Jonkonnu Festival, also known as John Canoe. Jonkonnu is a dancing parade of ancient African rituals with a Mardi Gras style. The dancers wear costumes and masks as they dance from house to house. The dancers are followed by two drumers and a female chorus. The music played is called goombay, which

that had already inhabited it. This group of Native Americans was called the Taino. The Taino were the most native people who inhabited the Caribbean. They occupied what are now the Caribbean Islands of the Virgin Islands, the Dominican Republic, Jamaica, Cuba, Puerto Rico, and Haiti. When Christopher Columbus confronted the Taino, he characterized them as “naked as the day they were born.” By 1550, close to all the Taino population was wiped out due to disease spread to the Americas by Spaniards

this quest towards the holistic development of these students. How important are these roles and functions in the development of our children, our future? This essay seeks to outline the major roles and functions of a guidance counsellor in our Jamaica school setting and also to examine some of the factors which negatively impact the guidance counsellor in his or her quest towards fulfilling these roles. As a guidance counsellor the implementation of all the components geared towards the holistic

The objective of this paper is to examine the relationship between place and music and analyze the song “Inglan is a Bitch” by Linton Kwesi Johnson in terms of place. “Inglan is a Bitch” exemplifies the link between music and place through its lyrics and sound. First I am going to define cultural geography and discuss how culture is linked to place. Then I will explain local music spaces and why music has a strong sense of place. Next I will analyze how “Inglan is a Bitch” relates to place. After

finally played it and got vast amount of request for it. The kind of audience that No Doubt attracts are mostly women but men also listen to them. In “Just a girl” by No Doubt, Gwen Stefani introduces her audience to feminism. She uses upbeat Ska-rock music, sarcastic, and blunt lyrics to appeal to the audience through ethos and pathos. To have a better understanding on “Just a Girl” we will have to understand the background of the lead singer. After the death

“What exactly are Tachyons?” Stefan asked with interest. “Tachyons are subatomic particles that travel not only at the speed of light, but also all the way up to infinity,” Pars revealed. “The breakthrough came when we detected the Tachyon particles in the northern Aurora Borealis and later also in the southern Aurora Australis. In other words, the solar storms shed plasma containing many charged particles such as electrons and protons that collect in the north and south of the Earth’s magnetic

Hip hop music and its artists are often criticized by some for glamorizing violence and being questionable influences on today’s youth. However, these artists and the dancing styles tied to their music have not always been the same. In its roots, hip hop was originally designed to do just the opposite. Originating on America’s East coast, it was meant to distract the youth from the gang violence riddling their neighborhoods and promote healthy competition through the popular art of ‘break-dancing’

was established by Black Americans, the youth in particular because of their marginalization. Mainstream music was made mostly by White Americans for White Americans on topics they could relate to. Even though Hip-Hop started off as just a beat it transformed into something so much more. Jamaica born DJ Clive “Kool Herc” Campbell,  one of the most influential in pioneering the art of hip hop music, brought over many Jamaican traditions including their tradition of toasting, which laid the blueprint