History of dance music in Barbados
The Barbadian traditional dance includes a wide variety of styles, performed at Landship, holidays and other ceremonies. Dancers and other...
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Barbadian traditional dance includes a wide variety of styles, performed at
Landship, holidays and other ceremonies. Dancers and other performers at the
crop over festivals, for example, are popular and an iconic part of Barbadian
culture and they are known for dancing in the costumes of sugarcane-cutters.
The Landship movement features songs and dance meant to emulate the passage of
a British navy ship through rough seas, Landship and other ceremony do feature
African-derived ad hoc and complexly-rhythmic dances, British hornpipes, jigs,
maypole dance and Marches.
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The
Jean and Johnnie dance was a significant part of bajan culture until it was
banned on the 19th century. This was a popular fertility dance that
was performed in outdoor at plantation fairs and other festivals, and was
functional in that it allowed women to show off to men, and more rarely, etc.
The dance was eventually banned because the dance was associated with
non-Christian African culture.
