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Globalisation has encompassed the Caribbean’s carnival from traditional mas to a more westernized and modern form of carnival. Technological advancements have increased our culture worldwide with countries also adapting this form. Carnival is losing its tradition and with the years moving by we continue to lose this authentic carnival experience all due to globalisation.

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Carnival in the Caribbean has moved to a more westernized culture compared to years ago. As known from before there was a more coherent form of playing mas as every race, colour, body type and social status could play carnival. With time progressing this changed with now a more elite and high social class people playing carnival. Due to the tourist’s industry increasing with people from aboard coming to partake in this festival it slowly changed to women from having all types of body sizes to one size of being slim. The great realm of the “bikini and beads” concept has adapted to our society as we move away from the traditional mas of carnival characters portraying a meaning of what happens today. The term westernized culture has been taken from Europe and Africa as these two cultures merged to form this festival. From the African culture they introduced the beating of the drums together with the dancing and singing on the streets to express their happiness and freedom from slavery. For the European culture the French introduced a more expensive taste into it with the elite class having fancy masquerade balls coupled with costumes. These two cultures intertwined to create this specular festival which is celebrated every year in the Caribbean. With the years passing by we have moved and continue to be moving to a more westernized tradition of playing carnival in the Caribbean. It is known already that Trinidad’s carnival is losing its traditions by adapting to this westernized form.

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Instead of changing the costumes, carnival has become a business industry. Preparations for the carnival season begins during the July-August months as different bands launch their themes and costumes for the upcoming carnival season. Carnival employs singers, make-up artists, costume designers and chorographers just to name a few. With advancement in technology they can work year-round anywhere around the world. Carnival has spread around the global in which we know as diasporic. The Caribbean’s carnival has spread worldwide in various countries such as England, Canada and Brazil just to name a few. These countries however celebrate carnival in different aspects and forms compared to the Caribbean however it still adopts the “bikini and beads” concept. Carnival has seen its way as an economic resource in many countries providing foreign revenue and providing many jobs for small companies. It has created a tourism industry in the Caribbean luring tourist from around the world to enjoy, partake and obverse this festival in the Caribbean. This sort of activity has boost Caribbean culture and identity through its carnival. Tourism here has boosted the Caribbean integration of its carnival recognition around the global. From the origins of carnival music has been included such as calypso long ago to now soca. Here we can also see that the music industry has been shifted from calypso in which calypsonians sang about issues in the country compared to nowadays soca which is “wave and wine.”

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Overtime cultural norms and traditions have erased this traditional form of carnival to now a more modernise form. As we moved forward carnival has moved to. Costumes have moved from being a fully covered dress to “bikini and beads” as we know it today. The whole population is not able to part take in such festival due to the price of these costumes. Also, the price associated to attend parties and other festivals that takes place during this time. It has narrow down to a certain class of people that could part take in these activities leaving out the rest. Mostly the upper class can enjoy this. Privatisation of bands leads to only a certain social class of people to purchase costumes to play carnival. According to Keith Nurse he states that other transformations such as gender, ethnicity and class roles in the festivals. Nowadays there are more women than men that play carnival. To continue before carnival became modernise, women of all shape, sizes and skin colour would express themselves in their costumes. As time progresses it quickly turned to slimmer, lighter coloured skin women to parade the streets. Here we can see that due to cultural norms there is a significant change of the type of people that played mas compared to long ago. In addition, a lot of foreigners added to this slimmer, lighter phase of women who play carnival.

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Culture can be defined as the behaviour and beliefs that a social group share. Since Carnival was introduced in the Caribbean it has became part of the culture of the country as there are beliefs and practices that people have put into Carnival. At the begin of this festival people wore traditional costumes having their bodies fully covered. Each costume worn portraited a character of importance to that person. However, in the Caribbean due to the culture that has been have introduced carnival characters such as: moko-jumbie, blue devils, jab-jab, fancy Indians and midnight robber just to name a few evolved. These were the most popular characters that people portrayed. Each character shows and costumes show a meaning in today’s world and tell a story of an event. Example the character “baby-doll” is mostly played by women in which she carries a doll which signalises a baby. She would stop by male-passers by and accuses them of being the father. This sort of scenario is known to happen in real life as men would leave their wives with children and run away without paying child support. Hence this character is played to show what has occurred and continues today. The dress was very simple. Almost everyone could have played carnival as it was affordable.

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Carnival is celebrated throughout the world as people move to sound of music dressed in their costumes as they parade the streets. However, Trinidad carnival is considered one the best and greatest show on Earth. People from all over the world come down to take part in this once in a lifetime experience. From our historical knowledge carnival was introduced by the French settlers on the island. This was done through fancy masquerade balls for the upper-class French elites. As time passed other ethnic groups displayed their own carnival celebrations. When slavery was abolished in 1838 the slaves of African descent celebrated by dancing on the streets, singing and beating the drums to express their happiness. Everyone was involved these celebrations. These celebrations have become adapted to Trinidad’s culture as every year we celebrate the greatest show on earth. However, overtime Carnival has changed throughout the years to adapt to the modern world. To add even the music has adjusted from calypso to soca music as the times went by.

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Globalization in the Caribbean- Carnival  

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Globalization in the Caribbean- Carnival  

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Globalization signifies the beginning of a global network, in which cultural, economic, environmental and political occurrences transpiring in communities in one part of the world has rapidly come to be significant to people around the world. The way in which technology has “evolved” has resulted in a development of communication, transportation, scientific discoveries and information technology. (Stilgitz, 2003:35). Globalisation begin in the Caribbean though the process of migration from 1870-1913. Here a wave of migrants came to the Caribbean for international business and capitalism. Throughout history there were many settlers that came to the Caribbean in which they introduced their culture and traditions. Today we have developed this culture in which it is embedded in our lives today. Festivals such as carnival which was introduced by the French, religions festivals such as Eid and Diwali introduce by the Indians and many other traditions has shaped our Caribbean culture. However, throughout the years these traditions have changed to adapt to the modern Caribbean in which we live in through the process of globalisation. This newsletter article will focus on Carnival as a testimony for globalisation.