Jamaican Sound System Culture And The Origin Of Dub
September 10, 2011 by Caribbean Vacation and Island Tips
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A sound system is a group of disc jockeys, engineers and MCs playing ska, rocksteady or reggae music. The sound system scene is generally regarded as an important part of Jamaican cultural history and has been responsible for the rise of several modern Jamaican musical genres…..This is a clip detailing the origin of sound systems and Dub music
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Caribbean Pleasure Industry: Tourism, Sexuality, and AIDS in the Dominican Republic (Worlds of Desire: The Chicago Series on Sexuality, Gender, and Culture)
August 4, 2011 by Caribbean Vacation and Island Tips
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In recent years, the economy of the Caribbean has become almost completely dependent on international tourism. And today one of the chief ways that foreign visitors there seek pleasure is through prostitution. While much has been written on the femal
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Material Culture in Anglo-America: Regional Identity and Urbanity in the Tidewater, Lowcountry, and Caribbean (Carolina Lowcountry and the Atlantic World)
May 27, 2011 by Caribbean Vacation and Island Tips
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Material Culture in Anglo-America examines the extent to which regions project cultural identities through the material forms of objects, buildings, and constructed environments. Utilizing more than 130 illustrations and essays by scholars representi
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Caribbean Literature and the Environment: Between Nature and Culture (New World Studies)
April 16, 2011 by Caribbean Vacation and Island Tips
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Perhaps there is no other region in the world that has been more radically altered in terms of human and botanic migration, transplantation, and settlement than the Caribbean. Theorists such as Edouard Glissant argue that the dialectic between Caribb
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Culture and Customs of Bolivia (Culture and Customs of Latin America and the Caribbean)
April 13, 2011 by Caribbean Vacation and Island Tips
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Bolivia has long been neglected by North American historians and anthropologists. Now, author Javier A. Galván fills this gap with a book that analyzes the complex cultures of this South American nation within the context of its rich history and con
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