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The play was succeeded by another roots play, Like Father, Like Son, and 2008 saw the debut of Di Driva, by Paul O'Beale, at the Green Gables Theatre, Cargill Avenue, St. Andrew. [8] The play tells the story of a politician and his wife, a former beauty queen, and their unsuccessful attempts to produce offspring.
Jamaican women dramatists and playwrights (5 P) Pages in category "Jamaican dramatists and playwrights" The following 15 pages are in this category, out of 15 total.
Jamaican performance, aesthetics, and folk culture are major influence on the Collective's work. [5] Inspired by Caribbean playwrights and artists like Dennis Scott , the Collective utilizes songs, games, rituals, folklore, African stories, reggae , and other elements of Jamaican popular culture in their plays. [ 5 ]
The ritualistic aspects of Kromanti dance involves a "distinctive music and dance styles" which is "centered around possession by ancestral spirits." [7] [1] [2]Some of the surviving elements derived from African tradition are Country, a music style that uses a drum language like the Dondo, in order to play songs and proverbs; and healing, which is achieved through a rhythmic dance, music, and ...
In 2004, Shervington was awarded the "Living Legend" award at King's House, Jamaica, along with Mighty Sparrow, Ernie Smith, David Rudder, Ken Lazarus and others.The band Pluto & Company was twice the recipient of the Caribbean Music Festival award for Florida's best Caribbean dance band.
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Harry Belafonte, a Jamaican-American pop-calypso singer in 1954. Caribbean music genres are very diverse. They are each synthesis of African, European, Arab, Asian and Indigenous influences, largely created by descendants of African slaves (see Afro-Caribbean music), along with contributions from other communities (such as Indo-Caribbean music).
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