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...movement) but a discontinuous series of recurrences, of happenings, whose sole law is change". Referring to three areas of Caribbean culture, provide examples of this cultural "instability" and how it impacts on and/or reflects Caribbean people.
"We should get accustomed to the idea that our identity is going to change on contact with the other."- Edouard Glissant
Antonio Benitez-Rojo states that "creolization is not merely a process (a word that implies forward movement) but a discontinuous series of recurrences, of happenings, whose sole law is change". The root of creolization is said to be the plantations, where it was plodding its cultural fragments through its way in modern Caribbean history. The cycle of having these fragments come together and then pull apart and come together again is all part of the colonization process. This colonization process affects many areas of the Caribbean culture including its music, language, and food.
Music in the Caribbean is a prominent form of creolization in the Caribbean. The sounds of samba of Cuba, Latin jazz of Brazil, calypso of Trinidad and dancehall of Jamaica all seem to stem from the African Diasporas as well as the sounds originating from the plantation. These forms of music incorporated the pulsating drums of Africa as well as the sounds created on the plantation such as the rhythms from the sugar mill's machines, the machete stroke that cuts the cane, the overseer's lash and the planter's language.'(Antonio). Although the drumming was forbidden, Africans resisted vehemently and adapted European music to suit their own needs, being forced to participate in it. Several forms of folk music in the Caribbean reflect the fusion of African and European musical forms: the beguine in St. Lucia, mento in Jamaica, salsa in Cuba, and bossa nova in Brazil, are all examples of this fusion. Along with the focal...
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