What are the origins of carnivals?

The origins of carnivals was on that brought a

number Spanish-speaking people of Trinidad, this people was slaves, then followed in
with them came the tradition of Carnival to London.

When did the carnivals originate? The people that did originate at the carnival was the
slaves. After this people was in liberty.

What kind of people did participate in Carnivals at the begining of their celebration?
The first people that participated was the slaves y some people of London.

What was the purpose of celebrating a carnival at the beginig of its history?
I think that it was the liberty of slaves.


Why is it important that children learn the history of Carnivals?
Is there a relationship between carnivals and religion? Why?
What do people do during De Juve carnival?
Have the customes worn in the carnivals changed over the last 20 years?
Do children participate in carnivals and wear customes?
Why are customes so important in their meaning?
What do they say about the customes worn by women in Carnivals?


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the Army Gen accountable
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traced back to you up we've extravagant costume parties
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before to mean of length a Catholic period of fasting
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when Europeans colonize the Caribbean and the Americas
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the brothers on the tradition which took a new flavor while the slave trade from
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africa
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began fast forward to today and the Commonwealth equipped is not an
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international phenomenon
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we invited on next two guests to discuss the history and culture of Chronicle
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from it origin that link up two and then and the team behind
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celebration in different countries joining us for this segment
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but reshot founders associate professor up English
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and director of the Carribean literally and cultural studies program at the
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University of Miami
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and rules Kelly Prescott costume designer
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and then leader founding member up the Carnival band
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heritage TNT thank you both for joining us today
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thank you for inviting us when he was patricia let me start with UN
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tell me a little bit a bob the story of Comilla where did the origin it in
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how was the bright to the Carribean well I mean
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as far as and it the day can be contested but I think
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in the late I would say seventeen
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7017 eighties there was a schedule a
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a population on that brought a number
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love spanish-speaking people to Trinidad in particular
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the friend soon followed in with them came the tradition of Carnival
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om so it it several hundred years old in the english-speaking carribean
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on of course as a slave trade began
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some of these like like many other traditions
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in the carribean it was clear lies it was clear lies when the slaves
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two different aspects I love the Kandhamal
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and in imbued it with their own meaning their own
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religious symbolism on the important thing to remember about carnival this is
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also a tool for
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social and political commentary sold the slaves use that as a moment as well
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hot to resist and to borrow from this tradition
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ASM means love criticizing
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not only slavery but their masters on
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and most importantly we don't think about is that the
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the carnival tradition also became away expressing
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freedom even in the context of slavery
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obviously that has them at continue to change from the 18th century right up to
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the 21st century
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and this is a sample of Trinidad be happen this week other island
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we even if he was not a english-speaking island like French alan was the same way
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also
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yes use a conical rose I know that you teach
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kids you keep you teach children the history of conical why do you think it's
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important for them to know they stress not about the costume end up partying
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and
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walking man industry because the kids are the future of Conover
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if they don't know the history then they won't be able to express themselves
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dunno what
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the what the done thing on the referees or the both
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you know so if there was a need to teach these kids because they've come here
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on the parents came here and the kids are here but it did
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the children don't know about condom but and apparently with toward them so I
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thought it's a great idea if I could just teach these kids
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what kind of a little about can you explain the relation of the Catholic
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religion yes home con the first started from Chris Munce
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to Asheville NC and it was home
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did the they people were dressed in
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home with my last the use on the mosque from the French
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on this with hid the you know hid themselves
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and then they on Ash Wednesday that would go to church and get ashes and be
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resolved
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from this in you know that's what got when that's when after Ash Wednesday
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that's when the land period start yes yes and yes you remember the name
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honey boba yes it's very it's very origin is a farewell to the flesh
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right and so in an interesting way very is this
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interesting in again if we think about it both as a motor celebration
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expression
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but on also as a way of a kind of throwing off
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I love all of the usual motive oppression
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if only for these two days do is there's a sense
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and I think it's a deeply religious sense of allowing the sole
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on this moment of expression through this art form
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I'm so it's particularly it's an interesting kind of on
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I was a contradiction between the spiritual side of it
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as well as some would say the revelry in the back and I'll as we call attention
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definitely well you have a different island I had their own tradition
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most of them follow the Catholic calendar not be seen after Christmas
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until
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Ash Wednesday but let's look at the Lebanon Trinidad right now and I Lanza
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had the same tradition
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you have different you fancy during the carnival week I wanna see you have juvie
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you have a
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Ash Wednesday you have the condo vultures they wish we call monsignor of
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being the other islands
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we have a much crap exactly well let's start with heroes can you tell me a
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little bit about
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the mahdi got a conical Tuesday and us one thing
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okay home out start from these you free are just OK as the big enough the
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conifer
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it starts like a 5 o'clock in the morning
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and the the clothes that no warning I from the years before
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or old clothes you know on beyond we just had my done
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competence on over the bodies and they come out at this time
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and Aaron movie up the music trucks and to go on the streets and parade
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and then when the Sun comes up like about ten o'clock they go back home and
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the address and
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Monday into their nice costumes but before they the issue here
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did we have what is called a mosque rock from the French word again
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I and they are home we have or
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day you have the calypso and we have they are
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competitions have the queen and king of Kong for on this particular night
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and the Copa de collapses or that commentary about politics and whatever
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is going on in the country at that particular time
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and and then it goes into the issue free now and then
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and to convert Monday where I come on Monday evening
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will be read Courtnall we just stress I'm not to info costumes you know
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week period we still go on the stage and have a great time but Khan the boat
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shoes
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the it so that 100 get out they
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we start getting dressed at five o'clock in the morning and
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okay celebration already because the bonds we meet at
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seven-b_ have to get seventy free not there the trucks go into
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without a mockery that so you have to be there on
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or everybody is dressed in the full costumes
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and its liberal deals on everything yes just the firefight Juvia is the French
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word any means
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the day's opening correct ok and I think it's important that the room
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house GOP came about was fed we during slavery
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this laser anxious to start the Kandhamal as soon as possible because
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for them it was really important
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had a spiritual ceremony so they sort of implemented a kind of curfew if you will
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so that it couldn't begin until first light
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on and it's important part of the wearing of the old clothes in the whole
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rise again
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keeping in mind this or spiritual relevance from juvie morning took on a
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vote Tuesday
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you there's a lot more mud masks and
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complicates and different things like that and if you follow
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that to con about Tuesday it's somewhat supped up movement every birth
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so that you move from the mud masks to the Monday mass we impartial costume
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with the revelry begins and then on Tuesday as we call it to you
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you had a pretty mess and it's almost as if if you will from so does yes
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from the caterpillar to the butterflies side well
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that's her greatest three so now let's fast forward to today
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21st century now a lot of people think honorable
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like well we have carnival in Miami coming up in a month just think
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the costume the music the liquor
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industry basically though they don't really know the history of it and some
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people don't
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really wanna know but I just think about the fun part in such a rich history
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let's talk about the cost him first how to question evolve and I know rosa you
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been designing custom fall
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long time now so can you tell me how the cost to evolve to
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what he was twenty years ago to now where we first started off
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imitates in the friend on my sis and
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on the word Mon came from
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on masquerade because the French used to have these math grade boys
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and they would dress up all fancy and this leaves
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you know would mimic would mimic them and where these costumes
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and then rearm be a fav into it now
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we have be way more skin Picasa few
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it up II if the emancipation of the room and
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you know date we actually showing some PDF the bench in addition exile yet sure
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some example
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right so now you see that the reason for the
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the skimpier costumes on women feel
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on you seem all women and a band and men because
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the field you know the the of a power do
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the emancipation the freedom you know if the freedom of the woman
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yes fetish I wanted to add something I would also say the addition to the
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beauty or less
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again on we focus on the costumes but there's also two other important
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components that are integral to cut a rug calypso
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music which is an important motive social commentary
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that also provides the soundtrack if you will for Carnival
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and of course steel bad Amundson wanted the other things interesting
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on for example in terms of how Kandhamal broke out of the Carribean
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you had carribean people migrating inter-island migration
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so the carnival grew in that regard and it was for the Cree allies cuz it's a
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there's
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carnival in Guadeloupe and Martinique now they should actually pictures on
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arrival nation in Miami where the band
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came from Toronto so exactly and same thing with the steel band you have steel
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pan in Tokyo
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you have steel stem on the African continent it's really mutated I I just
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returned from Notting Hill Carnival
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phone in London lawyer which is huge I mean indecent take place if you see last
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Monday in August single followed a couple ecology exactly
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alright Senate anyone and Miami doesn't on in New York City it's on Labor Day
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it's it's a it's on Monday I think the Monday after you have anything in common
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goal and August you have labor day in New York gassing October you have Miami
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we can't forget carabao right about now because in July in July
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DC Atlanta I mean so in a way that the different places that the mask
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that kind of all has so have proliferated to is an indication of all
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the different passive migration
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of Carribean people and so it's interesting that in all these places
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as it's broken away from the lantern calendar it's also become an expression
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of pan carribean solidarity
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so many people will say that count Karneval is one of the places where
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carribean Federation succeeded right it may not have succeeded politically
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but it has certainly succeeded culturally and nine times together
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exactly
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together exact well to her mouth I had what path did suggest then
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I was invited to go by on Africa come to duke on the road at this fear
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I'm about got the president they were
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they were celebrating the 50th anniversary from the French
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and they wanted to have a convert some debris shun
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so we took costumes and they had a great time
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well it will depend on the person I location
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it is well your another component is the children carnival
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a lot of fun people forget that children also in Conway it's a different day and
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night in Miami only the week before order not to what food
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okay a new design costume yes I love the chair and I i have a
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kids ban on down at the kids carnival you really see the creativity in conifer
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you know so I'm inviting you to come down to the better than
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so how the children react to the costume and the music do they understand fully
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what is happening yes we're I I do it does it teach in
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for the kids so when they come I explained to them what the caution was
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about
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and on what the four train so that the understand what we doing
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you know son got the you know you can see the kids really
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expressing themselves you know because when they put on the cost you
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you know or this is me from the back Mon compensate dot cost you
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you don't know the difference between dressing up for Halloween and definitely
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normal
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and I think wanna be interesting things up both with
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did kiddies carnival and the costume itself is that
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because she was aware telling a story every band has a theme or narrative
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war often than not it can be an epic narrative on
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week were each section is almost a different chapter
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if you will and the telling of the story and so I think for kids who are
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accustomed to sort of story time and
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where the imaginations are our greatest it really is an opportunity for them
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to sort of inhabits bat imaginary world
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through the costuming and through the condom all is well and I think
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that also translates into the adult con about because there's a long tradition
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orel culture in the carribean and that are all cultures not just for herbal
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storytelling
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but performance performance is one of the ways we
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on pass on our history and passed on our
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our culture name for heritage TNT because I wanted to teach them about the
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culture the conifer
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so not fear we did how did people came to the Caribbean
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different faces one people the Caribbean on
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this fear we teach in ho convoy came to be
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so well my last question lot of people will be will not be from the Caribbean
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watching the car to Carnival in Miami sometimes effing dates
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very sexual eyes and the woman have basically wearing
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colour close that doesn't cover that much on the body
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and did not understand way comfortable on the stand
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the purpose of it what would you like to say about them
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it I would want to say to people that I mean it is sexual
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sex is a part of our lives I mean it's how we procreate
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on but it's also when you keep in mind again this notion
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up emancipation I'm one of the reasons I think in Trinidad
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today I think women outnumber men something like six to one
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right that there's a way in which women come out to express themselves and it
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doesn't mean it past the only be sexually
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but it's a freeing up a freeing up on away from these kinds of you know
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war raised that's a to be a woman in this sphere you have to dress this way
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in
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speak this way an act this way on for these two days of the year
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you find men dressing as women women dressing as men
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oMG adulteress his children on the idea of Kandhamal is a turning
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upside down of the world and the powerful
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become the meek and the poor and vice versa so I think that that's an
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important and again it's interesting because
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that's represented in the cost you but it's also represented in the revelry
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that there's a kind of abandoned almost and togetherness
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about you know it's summer those boundaries that
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for the other 363 days of the year that keep us in our
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confined communities I think they're taken down just for that moment
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so that we can really begin to experience one another at a different
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level