About BarbadosOf all the islands in the eastern Caribbean, Barbados stands apart as the one that its British flavour through its colonial history. Some of the towns have recognisable English seaside resort names: Hastings, Brighton or Dover. You can even still go to a polo match and be offered tea and cucumber sandwiches, or watch cricket on the village green. A Test Match at the Kensington Oval is a different kettle of flying fish, an example of how an English sport has been turned into pure Afro-Caribbean pageantry, with an exuberant audience adding drums, whistles, masks and costumes.
Bajans stress their Afro-Caribbean heritage and have developed it in their music and festivities. Drum music, which was banned by colonial masters to prevent the organization of rebellions, is thumped out all over the island and ‘tuk’ bands are an essential part of carnival processions. Reggae, too, has its own enthusiastic fans and many home-grown professional exponents. Calypso, soca and pan music blast from cars and buses, as well as being the centrepiece of Crop Over, the boisterous festival celebrating the end of the sugar harvest. Rhythm is in the Barbadian blood. Even baby Bajans can dance better than the average white tourist!
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