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He has compared his moves to those performed by Sweet Richard, the leading junkanoo dancer of the 1950s, and claims they are inspired by the grimaces of jungle animals; in this they embody what he freely identifies as ‘the Junkanoo spirit’.
This paper argues that despite popular mis-conceptions, Junkanoo, a mainly Anglophone Caribbean street festival fundamental to Bahamian identity, has always functioned as a new and liberative way of doing theology in that context.
Junkanoo in Historical Perspective. In Jessica Minnis (ed.), Junkanoo and Religion: Christianity and Cultural Identity in the Bahamas. Nassau, Bahamas: Media Enterprises, pp. 10-19.
Junkanoo music, which functions as a particularly powerful mechanism of cultural intimacy in the Bahamas, focuses this discussion, enabling the complexities of the Bahamian national identity to be viewed from multiple perspectives. Junkanoo exists both as a festival music and as a popular music, the latter drawing its legitimacy from the former.
19 de ago. de 2021 · In the Bahamas, special parades and the culture that surrounds them are known by one word: Junkanoo. For historian Arlene Nash Ferguson, it's been a lifelong passion.
Junkanoo is the culture of the Bahamas, and every child is taught the history of the legacy to John Canoe. The main reason it still lives today is because the younger generations attend and participates in Junkanoo (Bowleg 2016). Junkanoo is a time where Bahamians can come together as one.
There are numerous stories woven into the entries included in this bibliography: the story of the mutiny of the Brig Creole, the story of the slave liberator Joseph Walker, slave folklore and tales collected by Elsie Parsons, Pompey’s revolt and the sad tale of Kate Moss.
