HUMA 2310 Lecture Notes - Chocolate, Steelpan, Calypso Music
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Lecture notes for huma 3305- lecture 1, sept. 13th 2012. The caribbean as a created society of voluntary and involuntary migrants: the emergence of a caribbean oral tradition, the impact of the slave trade and slavery. The implications of the slave trade and its vagaries for the transference of cultural practices and institutions and the creation of racially and ethnically segmented societies. During slavery the limitations on autonomy for the enslaved and its implications for the maintenance and development of cultural institutions. The struggle for physical and psychological survival. The urgency of the need for communication in the context of duress. The underlying homogeneity/commonalities of west and central african grammars as the basis for the reconstruction of language communities. The emergence of creolized forms of european and african languages and a creole patois through the processes of the homogenization of african language practices and adaptations to the dominant european language forms.