Rex Nettleford Cultural Conference U.W.I. Jamaica, March 1996 Opening Address
The structure of every society is based on written or unwritten laws which bind it and its members. [...]education in any community, (be it a family, a social class, or profession, or some wider complex such as race or the State) is the direct expression of its active awareness of a standard."...
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Veröffentlicht in: | Caribbean quarterly 1997-03, Vol.43 (1-2), p.1-15 |
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Zusammenfassung: | The structure of every society is based on written or unwritten laws which bind it and its members. [...]education in any community, (be it a family, a social class, or profession, or some wider complex such as race or the State) is the direct expression of its active awareness of a standard." There is no English word that describes the basic steps for Kumina, dinkimini, tambu, Etu, - all indigenous Jamaican dance forms. [...]dance steps derived from Caribbean rituals are best expressed by Caribbean names" The parallel with Caribbean literature is obvious, and provides an opportunity for comparative study in critical responses to the development of the novel and the dance. Í woufd therefore invite them to examine the possibilities of popular theatre as an instrument for the distribution and dissemination of knowledge: the ways in which this particular form of popular expression can be put at the service of historians, novelists, economists, social scientists, community health workers; and how this can be done without in any way neglecting or violating the theatre's more familiar function of entertainment. [...]if we could change the style of politics from permanent campaigning for the seasonal cockfight you call 'elections', and work towards the creation of an intellectual tradition of politics; then the political leader may arrive at such a vision if he enjoys a certain measure of collaborative support from other modes of thought and perception - the historian, the poet, the students of philosophy and the social sciences, the economist and the theatre director who recreates the cultural history of the nation. |
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ISSN: | 0008-6495 2470-6302 |
DOI: | 10.1080/00086495.1997.11829557 |