Caribbean Sea Sea music in a new modality it’s meant that it probes the African ancestor retained in the neighborhood ‘s religious ritual . The chapter further contends that in the African-derived context, no eminence is made between sacred and layperson , and that popular festivals like carnival, rara, junkannu, or gumbay are rooted in an Afro-religious mode .
In this respect, one finds commonality of themes, the major ones being: cultural affirmation; dream to freedom; and underground to oppression as expressed in ritual such as Vodou, Santeria, Candomble, Kumina, or Shango; popular dance-hall styles like “rasin” in Haiti, reggae in Jamaica, samba-reggae in Brazil; and carnival musics like Calypso bulbosa and soca in Trinidad & Tobago. The mix of culture seems to justify a departure from traditional presentation of music and culture of the Caribbean.
