Jonelle Cunningham
Survey of Caribbean Music
Exploring Caribbean Connections
English Caribbean
The term English Caribbean refers to regions in the Caribbean that primarily speak English. These consist of Jamaica, Barbados, Barbuda, Saint Lucia, Grenada, St. Vincent, British Virgin Islands, U.S. Virgin Islands, St .Kitts and Nevis, Antigua and Anguilla. This blog focuses on Barbados its music, artists and culture. Some of the Music Styles featured in Barbados would be Spouge, Calypso, Soca, and Tuk band music to list a few examples.
Central Artist: Rodger Gittens This playlist focuses On the influences and works of Rodger Gittens. Gitten was born in 1964 and he writes locally not for international audiences. His works are mostly known in the country of Barbados. He is a teacher and he writes styles such as calypso,jazz,choral, and gospel music. Most of the works I researched is that he did gospel, works for choirs, and cantatas.
Rodger Gittens Local Artist in Barbados
Playlist: The first song we will look at would be “I Believe” By Mr Roger Gitten. This song features Fiona John who is the vocalist of this piece. The song is from an Easter Musical movie "Fragrance of Love" which was produced in 2022 at Beluah Methodist Church. It talks about having a different perspective on love and Believing that a person who you love can truly be all and everything that matters as well as loving a person as they are.
Rodger Gitten Hymns, Pslams, and Songs
This video is a compilation of several gospel songs written by Mr. Gittens. It is his own interpretation of scripture in the Bible Psalms for example. In the Video shown above, Mr Gittens Himself speaks to the congregation about the different kinds of love. He mentions that there are 7 but he focuses on the Phillia Love which deal with the concept of brotherly love. The name of these songs are "Feed My Lambs" and "Love Thy Neighbor" the latter is sung by male voices. The instrumentation consist of a Keyboard and conga drums and voices of the Choir. There are other songs such as Psalm 23, Christ for the World sing, and Everyone needs a friend. As He interprets the music his theme is mainly on live, Unity and brotherhood.
The Song Rest of the Weary by Gittens has a calypso like feel and style and I like the feel and rhythm of this song. The Words are by John Monsell and Mr. Gittens did the Music. This was recorded in 2008. It is one of his styles on a known piece of music.
Another Playlist would be the song “Bethlehem” By Gittens. It is a song about the birthplace of Jesus Christ. It is from a series of advent music By Red Create and The World council of churches is also featured.
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