Word: caribbeans
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...think I might join the Caribbean Dance Troupe,” she said, as she stood between huddles of drunken college students. “I don’t have that much time, but I think it might be interesting. They know I’m an extension school student, and they told me I could come anyway. Besides, I think I can take a bit of time off work...
...notes Pat Bissonnet, Continental Airlines' director of diversity. "If you don't have the right culture, all the things you do to recruit won't help you a bit." Continental's hubs are home to large Latino populations, and the company gets 15% of its revenues from Latin and Caribbean countries. Hispanics now make up 20% of Continental's work force...
...step outside the borders of the world's hegemon--to Africa, the Caribbean, Latin America--and you find a different scene: namely, musicians and an audience who really have something to bitch about. Protest music in other parts of the world is complicated by a dynamic unfamiliar to Western listeners. American political music is traditionally an individual's complaint about the surrounding society. Standing on a street in Lagos or on a beach in Brazil, or staring down an invading army of Pokemon and Britneys, however, it can be equally as radical to speak out for your society...
...Boukman Eksperyans sets a Creole antiwar chant to the tune of Kyu Sakamoto's 1963 single Sukiyaki, an American chart topper by way of Japan. (For Bookman, even singing in Creole--which has periodically been outlawed in Haiti--is a political act.) Protest singers in Africa and the Caribbean have long preached a musical and lyrical Pan-Africanism, from Kuti's mondo-Afro beats back to Peter Tosh's 1977 rallying cry: "As long as you're a black man, you're an African...
...discipline and the ability to be a hard worker. If you look on the map, Haiti is right next to Santo Domingo, and at one time it was really one place, you know? Then you have Jamaica and Puerto Rico. I think musically all of that stuff in the Caribbean--the rhythm and the drums--you just get a natural sense of it. Sometimes, when I'm with my friends in the studio, I start to play salsa or merengue, and they're like, "Man, you're playing like you're from Puerto Rico or something!" I don't know...