Transcript Caribbean Studies: Impact of Caribbean culture on extra

Caribbean Studies: Impact of
Caribbean culture on extra
regional politics and economies
There are large numbers of
Caribbean communities in larger
cities of developed world
International perspectives
 Some of these cities are: New York, Toronto,
Miami, London, Paris and Amsterdam.
 Their sizeable presence will impact strongly on the
local and foreign politics of these host countries.
 The large presence of Cubans living in Florida
provides powerful lobby to pressure the US
government to formulate policies to undermine the
Castro communist government
International perspectives
 Haitian ‘boat people’
 Impact of immigration issue, used as a
political issue
 Our people provides both skilled and
unskilled labour that helps economic
development of the host countries
Impact of Caribbean cultural
practices on countries abroad
 Large presence of Caribbean nationals
provides a cultural force
 Popularity of the Caribbean as a tourist
destination
 Many Caribbean people travel abroad
causing cultural assimilation [adaptation by
foreigners].
Impact of Caribbean cultural
practices on countries abroad
 Cultural transmission through stage shows,
migration and the mass media
Impact of our national festivals
 Nottinghill carnival [UK]
 Labour Day in Brooklyn
 Carnival in Miami
MUSIC
 Caribana in Toronto
Impact and adoption of Caribbean music
 Calypso music
 Pannists or steelband men [steel pan is the
only musical instrument invented in the 20 th
century
MUSIC
 Popularity of reggae music: influence of Bob
Marley and Jimmy Cliff
 Promotion of reggae music through festivals [local
and foreign]
 Many north American and Japanese kids have
adopted aspects of Caribbean culture such as
corn row hair styles, braiding and use of Creole
 Reggae music being incorporated into the music
of other countries
MUSIC
 Japanese Sayoko has made a reworking of
the Japaese pop classic Ue O Muite Aruko (
Sukiyaki) as an extended CD single that
includes both Japanse and English versions
set to a reggae beat
 Good vibrations wrote a protest song
Election Time to protest the political victory
of President Chamorro who opposed the
revoluary Sandinistas
MUSIC
 In Zambia, Rastafarians and reggae artists
and fans shaped their own Sunsplash
(Reggae festivals) outside Lusaka every
year since 1990
 In United States Reggae Grammy winner
and icon Shaggy’s Boombastic, is being
used by Madison Avenue to market its
products, selling jeans for Levi Strauss
MUSIC
 Reggae is generally being incorporated into
other musical forms. One punk rock group in
the USA, now produces crossover reggae
they call Jah rock
 Reggae’s popularity has so increased as
part of the American culture that University
of Vermont advertised a course in the
Rhetoric of reggae on the Internet. This
course became the most popular
Caribbean culinary practices
 Caribbean is known for its culinary delights
 Generally limited influence apart from large
concentrations of Caribbean nationals or
those who visit the Caribbean
Religion: Rastafarianism
 Evolved as an indigenous cult
 Conceptulized during the Great Revival of
the late 1860’s
 Cult perfected in the 1930’s
 Leaders such as Marcus Garvey and
Alexander Bedward of August Town
stimulated this movement with their belief in
racial diginity
Rastafarianism
 In 1930, Ethiopian Prince, Ras Tafari
Makkonen was crowned as the Emperor.
 He took onto himself the title Haile Selassie
– Power of the Trinity
 Individuals such as Leonard Howell, Joseph
Hibbert and Archibald Dunkley,
independently developed the doctrine of the
Rastafarian movement
Rastafarianism
 The Rastafarians are a group that maintains
social solidarity and also rejected the
traditional norms and values of society
Rastafarianism: beliefs
 Rastafari, the late Haile Selassie I is God in
the form of man
 They worship jah as their spiritual leader
 Africa is their spiritual home
 The Old Testament and Psalms are their
sacred books: the written word of God
Rastafarianism: cultural practices
 Non use of materialism
 Retreat from Babylon and forward to the
hills of Zion
 They wear their hair as dreadlocks
 Smoke the ‘holy weed’
 Dress code includes : wearing of knitted
tams and sandals and the carrying of
Moses’s rod
Rastafarianism
 Their colours include red, green gold and
black are symbolic to their religion
 They eat only natural food (itals) and never
eat meat ( deaders)
 Rastafarians form tribes and live in
communes, each tribe has a leader or chief
who possesses power over all the other
members
Rastafarianism
 Girls are regarded as inferior to men and
exist only for their pleasure
 Often women are seen walking behind their
men, never in front or beside them
Rastafarianism: impact
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Music
Social justice
Cutural impact: conflicts
Bob Marley
Exodus: Album of the century
 Is Caribbean culture more popular abroad
than within the Caribbean?
Issues in Caribbean development
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Sustainable development
Economic development
Social development
Economic growth without development
Indicators of development
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Levels of income: GDP/GNP per capita
Productivity
Social and economic equalization
Modern knowledge (technology)
Improved institutions and attitudes
Environmental factors
Factors that promote or hinder
development
 Political ideologies( Capitalism, communism,
socialism, marxism); popular movements (
New Jewel Movement in Grenada).
 Distribution of wealth; resources; income
generation
 Changing class boundaries, social
stratification, social justice, social harmony
and mutual advantage
Factors that hinders or promote
development
 Definition of Caribbean Experience and
identity
 Natural and man-made disasters
 Impact of productive sector
 Tourism: contribution and challenges
Globalisation and development
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Definition and stages
WTO
IMF
WORLD BANK
MNC’s
TECHNOLOGY
TRADE
IDEOLOGIES
Impact and response to globalisation
 Industry and commerce
 Distributional sector (Supermarkets,
department stores).
 Labour( unemployment, need for continuous
upgrading of skills, knowledge-based world
 Technology( information, communication,
telecommunications)
The integration movement
 The evolution of:
Federation,CARIFTA,CARICOM,OECS,& ACS
 Caribbean Community(CARICOM)
 University of the West Indies
 CXC
 WICB
 CTO
 CSME
 Regional Security System
Contributions of sport
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Generation of income
Health and fitness
Educational opportunities
Sense of Caribbean identity
Discipline and morale
Presence on the world scene
Sports tourism
Intellectual traditions
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Pan Africanism
Negritude
Industrialisation by invitation
Maxism and Neo-Marxism
Caribbean perspectives on British
Capitalism
 Trends in Caribbean feminist thought
 Indigenous perspectives
Roles and functions of the mass
media