THE CARIBBEAN

The many musics of the Caribbean tell the many tales of the region’s history, from the ancient island life of indigenous population to that population’s devastation at the hands of Spanish, British, French and other colonial powers, from the horrors of the African slave trade to its many lasting political and personal implications, from the devastating mismanagement–if not outright plundering–of some of the region’s post colonial leaders to the generally democratic, and globally interactive countries of the day.

With a history so rocky and the many wounds that such a history caused still so undeniably raw, one can only marvel at the pride, passion and joy that’s at the heart of every kind of Caribbean music. We have way too much ground to cover to even start a superficial survey of Caribbean music, but that kind of practical reasoning won’t stop us!