Popular music of Jamaican origin having elements of Calypso, soul and rock and characterized by a strongly accentuated offbeat. rhythm and blues The all-encompassing term used to describe the African-American wellspring of postwar popular music. From rhythm and blues has come rock, soul, funk, ...
She was born Dulcie Pitt in Cairns, and her ancestry was an exotic blend of Jamaican, Indian, Australian Aboriginal, Torres Strait Islander, and Scottish. She and her sisters Sophie and Heather formed The Harmony Sisters, and they toured Queensland to entertain the troops during World War II,...
This Jamaican-born triple threat has always been a force to be reckoned with, and that's reflected in her on-screen roles. Back in the day, she shone in movies like "Shaka Zulu: The Citadel" and "Boomerang." Alamy Stock Photo & Getty Images Photo by George Pimentel/WireImag...
Preparations for the Christmas feast start days, even months ahead by baking cakes like the traditional Black Jamaican Cake. To make this cake, fruits are soaked in bottles of rum for at least two weeks. After the cake is baked, allowing it to sit for up to four weeks is common to impr...
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Namesakes/Description: Canadian singer-songwriter, pianist, and guitarist Alanna Clarke and Jamaican tennis player Alanna Broderick Variants: Alana and Alannah Dionne Origin: Greek girl name Meaning: “Follower of Dionysus (the Greek god of wine and ecstasy)” or “divine” Pronunciation:“dee-y...
Even so, these recordings have been very popular because the Abakua represent a rebel- lious, even anticolonial, aspect of Cuban culture. Now played throughout the Amer- icas, Mrica, Europe, and Asia, Cuban popular music and its derivatives maintain Abakua language and aesthetics as integral ...
The name means “town of Barr’s people”. Barrington is a unisex name, and it is a great option for parents who want a unique name for their child. Some famous people with the name Barrington include Barrington Levy, a Jamaican reggae singer, and Barrington Pheloung, an Australian ...
arts Article The Balkans of the Balkans: The Meaning of Autobalkanism in Regional Popular Music Marija Dumnic´ Vilotijevic´ Institute of Musicology, Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts, 11000 Belgrade, Serbia; marijadumnic@yahoo.com Received: 1 April 2020; Accepted: 1 June 2020; ...
In this article, I discuss the use of the term “Balkan” in the regional popular music. In this context, Balkan popular music is contemporary popular folk music produced in the countries of the Balkans and intended for the Balkan markets (specifically, the people in the Western Balkans and ...