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About TRINIDAD CARNIVAL
A celebration of emancipation, freedom of the flesh and cultural exuberance dates back to the 18th century and is renown as the “greatest party on earth”.
In an attempt to summarise this phenomenon, Trinidad Carnival is a conflation of masquerading, steelpan competitions, stick fighting, limbo dancing, fetes (parties), Afro-Indo food and Soca music.
French settlers brought their Mas tradition to the island back in the 1780s and Enslaved Africans staged their own “mini-carnivals”. Using their own folklore characters to mock their enslavers, the Canboulay laid the foundation for the Carnival that we know today.
Canboulay (from the French cannes brulés, meaning burnt cane) is the original festival that consisted of drums, singing, calinda dancing, chanting, and stick-fighting.
In the late 1800s, African percussion music was banned in response to the Canboulay Riots. To rebuttal, formerly Enslaved Africans used bamboo sticks as percussion, which were subsequently banned. Once again formerly Enslaved Africans created a new percussion to create the sounds that carried their song and dance to another plateau, the Steelpan.
Fast forward to modern day celebrations, Carnival has evolved into the global symbol of Trinidad and Tobago.