If our culture survives, then so do we 16 September 2025 “Grenada is leaning into the cultural experiences that storms cannot wash away: the defiant charge of Jab Jab, the storytelling ...
Grenada’s Carnival is full of African history, resistance 24 August 2025 Grenada’s Spicemas felt more African than I could have ever imagined; carnival in Grenada strikes me as a necessary diasporic ...
Why I celebrate the true meaning of carnival 28 July 2025 At Leicester’s Caribbean Carnival, Joanne Alexander’s troupe’s performance will focus on the Jab Jab, a traditional and satirical form of ...
A growing concern with random Jab playing 2 July 2025 “The psyches of those everyday jab players would not heed the noble appeal or protest of others that the activity ...
Grenada’s Jab Jab Music 2 July 2025 Thanks to innovators Moss International and others who have contributed to the development of this music by incorporating traditional Jab ...
Carriacou and Petite Martinique now on cultural map of the world 20 December 2024 Traditional Wooden Boatbuilding and Shakespeare Mas have been entered into UNESCO’s Representative List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity, ...
Critiquing Arley Gill’s “Musings on the Jab” 24 September 2024 Relegating the portrayal of Jab to the category of “dirty mas” because Jab Jabs do not strictly conform to certain ...
Musings on the Jab 10 September 2024 “The masquerade of Djab Molassie has evolved into what today in Grenada we refer to as Djab Djab (Jab Jab), ...
Alvaro Barrington: Carnival and Caribbean at Tate Britain 22 June 2024 Nearly half of the Tate Britain’s Duveen Galleries space is taken up by an installation and soundscape that evokes Barrington’s ...