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A native of Jamaica talks
about songs |
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I was born in an area that had a long history of slavery and the plantation system, and music was a part of the environment. The people going to work in the morning, walking sometimes four miles, you know - they sang; if somebody troubled them, they sang; if somebody died, somebody was born ... for religious purposes ... and then, of course, a lot of work songs. |
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As with all cultures, work songs were used to lighten labour. But, with us, it was more than that, because we weren't allowed to talk. You know, we like to talk. We weren't allowed to talk during working hours, which was from dark in the morning right through till dark in the night. So we got round it. So they said: "Don't talk"; so we sang. |
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Also in order to pass on messages, sometimes to cover up for someone who was escaping. So the work songs were very important, and they carried on into the plantation system, because as a child I remember many of them. |
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"But in thousands of songs that I have collected, I have never found one word of hatred or anger, because the music was a therapy. I think it's something of which we could be proud." |
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Por razones de tipo histórico, el inglés que se habla en Jamaica (como el que se
habla en Barbados, Bahamas y varios otros países del área del Caribe que han
sido colonias británicas) guarda bastante semejanza con el inglés de Gran
Bretaña. |
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