Roots Music Revivals in Saint Lucia
In the year 1969, three Saint Lucians known as Primrose Bledman, Charles Cadet and Eric Brandford collected many traditional songs for a s...
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In
the year 1969, three Saint Lucians known as Primrose Bledman, Charles Cadet and
Eric Brandford collected many traditional songs for a show at the 1969 Expo in
Grenada and then again at the Guyana’s 1973 Carifesta. The two main traditional
orchestras appeared; they include The Helenites (who led Clement Springer),
Joyce Auguste’s and The Hewanorra Voices. Auguste later brought the traditional
music into Saint Lucian music institutional system.
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During in the time of the independence from
the United kingdom in the year 1979, Saint Lucia underwent a deep political and
cultural developing and roots renewal which drew on the appearance of the black
consciousness trend of the United States, the effect of the Caribbean
Ecumenical Consultation for Development on the indigenous culture and the
loosening of limitations from the influential Roman Catholic Churches on
non-Christian cultural elements.
Since
the year 1973, the non-government cooperation traditional research Centre which
seeks to popularize the research into St. Lucian culture and to discover and
explain the role of culture in the development of the people.
