The music of Barbados includes distinctive national styles of folk and popular music, including elements of Western classical and religious music. The culture of Barbados is a syncretic mix of African and British elements, and the island's music reflects this mix through song types and styles, instrumentation, dances, and aesthetic principles.
Barbadian folk traditions include the Landship movement, which is a satirical, informal organization based on the Royal Navy, tea meetings, tuk bands and numerous traditional songs and dances. In modern Barbados, popular styles include calypso, spouge, contemporary folk and world music. Barbados is, along with Guadeloupe, Martinique, Trinidad, Cuba, Puerto Rico, and the Virgin Islands, one of the few centres for Caribbean jazz.[1]
The musicofBarbados includes distinctive national styles of folk and popular music, including elements of Western classical and religious music. The...
Barbados (UK: /bɑːrˈbeɪdɒs/ bar-BAY-doss; US: /bɑːrˈbeɪdoʊs/ bar-BAY-dohss; locally /bɑːrˈbeɪdəs/ bar-BAY-dəss) is an island country in the Lesser Antilles...
monarchy ofBarbados was a system of government in which a hereditary monarch was the sovereign and head of state ofBarbados from 1966 to 2021. Barbados shared...
/ˈbeɪdʒən(z)/ BAY-jənz) are people who are identified with the country ofBarbados, by being citizens or their descendants in the Bajan diaspora. The connection...
language with African and British influences spoken on the Caribbean island ofBarbados. Bajan is primarily a spoken language, meaning that in general, standard...
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Crop Over is a traditional harvest festival which began in Barbados, having had its early beginnings on the sugar cane plantations during slavery. The...
The culture ofBarbados is a blend of West African and British cultures present in Barbados. English is the official language of the nation, reflecting...
capital and largest city ofBarbados. Formerly The Town of Saint Michael, the Greater Bridgetown area is located within the parish of Saint Michael. Bridgetown...
2012. Best, Curwen (2012). "Post-Soca". The Popular Music and Entertainment Culture ofBarbados: Pathways to Digital Culture. The Scarecrow Press. pp...
Music is the arrangement of sound to create some combination of form, harmony, melody, rhythm, or otherwise expressive content. However, definitions of...
(as Barbados was called) had much fusion ofmusic. Eighty Englishmen and ten Africans were captured from a Spanish galleon and settled in Barbados in February...
The Barbados Jazz Festival was an annual music festival on the Caribbean island ofBarbados. It was a week-long celebration held annually in January in...
education to all people ofBarbados. North American love songs, parlor songs, African-American spirituals and folk hymns, and hillbilly music have also contributed...
The Order of Freedom ofBarbados is a national honour established by the Order of Freedom ofBarbados Act 2019 by the Parliament ofBarbados. As part within...
of Need" is the national anthem of the country ofBarbados. It was written by Irving Burgie and was composed by C. Van Roland Edwards. As one part of...
This is a list ofmusic genres and styles. Music can be described in terms of many genres and styles. Classifications are often arbitrary, and may be disputed...
A music genre is a conventional category (i.e, genre) that identifies some pieces ofmusic as belonging to a shared tradition or set of conventions. Genre...
are citizens or residents of the United Kingdom whose ethnic origins lie fully or partially in the Caribbean island ofBarbados. The UK is home to the second...
describing popular music artists, honorific nicknames are used, most often in the media or by fans, to indicate the significance of an artist, and are...
Barbados Regiment and the Barbados Defence Force. The musicians mainly range in ages between 18 and 50 years old and perform several types ofmusic from...