History Of Dancehall

Whining, gyrating, bump and grinding these are some of the similarities of dancehall and soca one may say the same things that occur at a dancehall session occur at a carnival or road march so is not safe to say that they are the indeed the same? According to an article titled “This is the History and Origin of DANCEHALL” Dancehall got its name from the Jamaican dance halls in which popular Jamaican music was played by the sound systems. These dance halls were mainly found in the inner cities of Kingston, in places like Trench Town, Rose Town and Hannah Town. However since Dancehall music started playing in Jamaica in the late 1970’s, it has changed the way people enjoy music and the way they wear clothes all over the world. As skimpy clothes

The latter explanation, while possibly apocryphal, is said to be emblematic of the sensuous abandon that came to define the Caribbean celebration of the holiday. Historians believe the first "modern" Caribbean Carnival to have originated in Trinidad and Tobago in the late 18th century, as a flood of French emigres brought the Masquerade tradition with them to the island, although Fat Tuesday celebrations were almost certainly taking place at least a century before that (Curley 2017). It is said that carnival came to Jamaica in the 1940’s and according to carnival instincts The first signs of Carnival in Jamaica began in the 1940’s with the opening of the University of the West Indies. This happened when the students from the Eastern Caribbean, especially those of Trinidad and Tobago, recreated the festival on campus of the elaborate Carnivals they enjoyed from back home a tradition that continues on the campus to this day (ring road march). However, Carnival at the time was still viewed as a foreign concept for the rest of the Jamaican public. In 1989, the late Jamaican music pioneer, Byron Lee, along with a small band of believers, conceptualized a plan to

Last Sunday, as I was on Waterloo Road watching the carnival parade, I ran into one of my neighbours. He asked me, “Carolyn, weh yu a do inna brown people business?” Since he’s just as black as me, I threw the question back at him. He laughed and said he was taking pictures. I suppose his ridiculous question was intended as joke. But it really wasn’t funny. A couple of days later, he stopped at my gate and said, “Hi, browning!” Now this was taking a joke too far. I wondered what was going on in my neighbour’s head. On Sunday, I wasn’t supposed to be in brown people business. By Tuesday, I had become an honorary browning? I know that money and social status can turn black people brown. But this transformation was rather sudden. And it had nothing to do with me (Carolyn Cooper 2016). Carolyn Cooper’s experience shows that carnival is perceived as a light skinned event and black people are not generally present at carnival events, here we can see colour being a requirement to partake in carnival. Another piece of evident that carnival was a thing for the people with lighter skin “I decided to take my chances and jump up in a band As soon as I arrived at the assembly point, I was reprimanded by one of my co-revellers. With much irritation, she said, “You were supposed to wear flesh-coloured