{"id":105540,"date":"2013-10-24T11:45:18","date_gmt":"2013-10-24T15:45:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dominicanewsonline.com\/news\/?p=105540"},"modified":"2013-12-29T13:17:38","modified_gmt":"2013-12-29T17:17:38","slug":"just-dennis-changed-things-made-creolekweyol-difference","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dominicanewsonline.com\/news\/homepage\/features\/commentary\/just-dennis-changed-things-made-creolekweyol-difference\/","title":{"rendered":"JUST DENNIS: Those who changed things and made the Creole\/Kweyol difference"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"Dennis
Dennis Joseph<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

One of my favourite songs from the group Kassav\u00a0\u00a0 is Tim Tim Bwa Sek which speaks of a lost tradition of days gone when older people would relate stories of things that happened and the moral of those stories to their children, grandchildren and younger folk and the song urges a need to restart this great tradition.<\/p>\n

If older Labourites had passed on the ideals of the Labour Party and its sufferings to their children then Savarin could never have been appointed president of Waitikubuli by the Labour Party.\u00a0 They would cringe to know that he is awarded the Medal of Honour to place in his record.\u00a0 But then that is just me an old Labourite remembering the time of the pain and struggle and I am sure you will say it is the pain speaking.\u00a0\u00a0 In Waitikubuli we the people are not big on our history.\u00a0 Commonly you hear, \u201cOh that is past tense let\u2019s forget that.\u201d\u00a0 We should learn from the great nations of the world who never forget their history.\u00a0 The two sets of words used repeated by the Jews are, \u201cNever again,\u201d and \u201cLest we forget,\u201d referring to the holocaust when Hitler slaughtered millions of them.\u00a0 In the cities and towns of the great nations you observe their history\u00a0\u00a0 in their monuments, museums, artistry, architecture, TV programs and in their commemorations going back centuries.\u00a0 There is even a dedicated expensive\u00a0\u00a0 History Channel on cable TV.<\/p>\n

We still do not understand that it is the past that creates the present and the future.\u00a0 If we did we certainly would not accept that excuse for an Edward Leblanc monument with a nearly invisible teeny- weenie photo of the man stuck on\u00a0\u00a0 hurriedly plunked down in front of the Mahaut toilet restroom the day before the opening of the rehabilitated road renamed the Edward Leblanc Highway and then about turn to lift up Charles Savarin who did his best to destroy Leblanc\u2019s work and his Labour Party.\u00a0 But then who cares?\u00a0 Certainly not those who struggled with him and benefitted from his struggle as they mostly remain mute and some even support what is happening.<\/p>\n

In writing this column I try to take the opportunity as often as I can to take you back even way back because if you believe in Waitikubuli then you must know her as a wife knows her husband and he knows her the same. How did she come to be what she is?\u00a0\u00a0 That is why whenever the Creole season comes around I try to take you back to the time when it was not like it is today, when creole was simply called \u2018patwa\u2019 a bad word to some yet the means of communication to so many of the rural folk and this is the past which has led to the music we celebrate in the present.\u00a0 If you can bear to read something twice the length of my usual presentations read on but if not stop here for it is folly to just taste the water because, \u2018A little learning is a dangerous thing drink deep or taste not the Pierian Spring.\u201d(Alexander Pope)\u00a0\u00a0 After that then it is your turn to comment for or against, nicely or fiercely as you will for we live in changing times.<\/p>\n

Some say Kweyol music others say daintily Creole music but however your tongue rolls it is our music.\u00a0 Music which is part of mass culture has been divided into two main spheres-popular music (Pop) and standard music.\u00a0 In Waitikubuli we have added creole music in which we are able to fuse all West Indian music into one, in other words the \u2018Creolisation\u201d of various types of indigenous music.\u00a0 Such was the case with Cadence-lypso a product of the band Exile One.<\/p>\n

French creole or \u2018patwa\u2019 as it was first called was for many years the language of the farming community who were called then, \u201ccountry bookie,\u201d and was severely rejected by mainstream society.\u00a0\u00a0 There were some who worked to keep the language alive in song and dance.\u00a0 In that regard the work of the late Mabel \u2018Cissie\u2019 Caudieron in the 40\u2019s and 50\u2019s is well documented though hardly ever remembered during the creole activities.\u00a0\u00a0 The struggle of Edward Leblanc whose attempts were ridiculed by the Roseau crew when he introduced the national cultural gala during the National celebrations was a huge stride forward in keeping the creole alive.\u00a0\u00a0 Edward Leblanc therefore began the movement that started the change of the negative thinking of our people toward our cultural heritage yet it was not remotely easy as ridicule and derision was heaped on his efforts by those who saw \u2018patwa\u2019 as the language of the uneducated and illiterate to be banned forever.<\/p>\n

However the contemporary Creole movement possibly truly began in late 1975 when amid much protest the Creole tongue was introduced as part of the regular programming at DBS.<\/p>\n

It happened this way:<\/p>\n

In August of 1975 I was asked to take over the management of the station.\u00a0 I had the name changed from Radio Dominica to Dominica Broadcasting Service \u2013DBS Radio and decided that if we would change the name we should also change the programming so I had the station off the air for reorganization for a full week when only news was broadcast at noon.\u00a0 I was amazed when going through the old logs that I could not find any reference to anything creole or \u2018patwa\u2019 as it was then called.\u00a0 I felt that was a huge omission especially as I had just come in from managing the Gaylords Power Union, a band which promoted and recorded \u2018patwa\u2019 songs around the world and also
\nI enjoyed the music of the Siffleur Montagne a singing group led by Jean Lawrence who also promoted \u2018patwa\u2019 songs.\u00a0 I discussed this with my assistant the great broadcaster Alvin Knight who had been there for years before I became Manager and he vigorously supported the effort but we both knew what would be coming at us from the \u2018patwa\u2019 haters.\u00a0 I decided to do some piloting on a Friday evening with Tim Durand who had volunteered.\u00a0 He was later assisted by Ferdinand Frampton who surprised us all as we did not know that he was such a \u2018patwa man\u2019 with a great style and so with Tim\u2019s consent he eventually took over the program.\u00a0 There was a firestorm as the \u2018patwa\u2019 haters ranted and raved.\u00a0 I recall one particular caller who many years later apologized to me suggesting that I should be hanged in the market square for, \u201cSpoiling the minds of the youth with \u2018patwa and Cadence on radio.\u201d<\/p>\n

DBS pressed on nonetheless and over the years has brought forward such stars as one of my best finds Felix Henderson,\u00a0 and Leroy Wadico Charles now also the female voice is added \u2013Kaywana Fontaine who has more possibilities than even she knows.\u00a0 Today when suddenly everybody loves creole it should stand as one of the triumphs of DBS radio, for in this regard the station changed the thinking of the whole nation making a once unaccepted part of our \u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026culture to be so infused that we even have a Journee\u2019 Creole(Creole Day).<\/p>\n

With that background of the work of others\u00a0 it was easier for the modern technology Creole music to take root though not conceived in Dominica but in Guadeloupe by a band of Dominican musicians called Exile One.\u00a0 When they began their musical journey they could not have known that their efforts would result in moving Creole expressions from a minority culture to a pop culture starting a musical adventure that eventually would become the signature event of their homeland.\u00a0 Their efforts changed the way we regard the power of local musicians as did the Gaylords Power Union.<\/p>\n

There are many theories as to how the idea came about and some have been boasted of as having visions and all of that.\u00a0 The truth is that this evolved from the thoughts and ideas of a number of people before it then came to seed.\u00a0 There was consultation with Mark Marie, Gordon Henderson, Michael Fagan, and a committee was set up by Sheridan Gregoire the then NDC general Manager\u00a0\u00a0 to come up with ideas for special events.\u00a0 I headed that committee which included Ronald Lander, Kelly Williams, Eddie Toulon and Sherita Gregoire and we came up with the suggestion of a Dominica Cadence Music Festival to coincide with the Independence celebrations but in my phone conversation with Gordon Henderson to which he refers in his book Zoukland he suggested that \u2018Cadence\u2019 should be changed to \u2018Creole\u2019 and \u2018Dominica\u2019 to \u2018World\u2019 so as to encompass all creole music.<\/p>\n

We then had a name- World Creole Music Festival.\u00a0 I have been told that this was also a suggestion from friends of Gordon including Mark Marie, husband and Manager of Ophelia Marie whose voice is a national resource, but I do not know enough to set it down here.\u00a0 It is also a fact and I should know it is a fact that we suggested the WCMF should be modeled along the lines of the previous Harlem all night Festival held years before on the Newtown Savannah.\u00a0\u00a0 So as you can see it took many minds and ideas to come up finally with the WCMF and not any one person\u2019s vision.\u00a0\u00a0 However none of this would have happened but for the decision by the UWP government to adopt and sponsor the idea amid much criticism and accusations of money wastage on \u2018sewo\u2019 and even ridicule by their political opponents who were having a good Ha-Ha- Ha including Charles Savarin.\u00a0 It is that United Workers Party government decision that changed the face of our musical culture and took what was essentially hometown music into the world of music and international entertainment that even those very political opponents of the past now hail it as the greatest musical cultural adventure of our time.<\/p>\n

It would not be fitting if I did not add a word about the late Eddie Toulon.\u00a0 When his name came up only Sheridan Gregoire and me on the newly formed Festival Commission strongly supported his application for the job of Executive Director.\u00a0 It was suggested that perhaps another person with experience from overseas could be found for the task.\u00a0 By the by he was accepted and he must be commended for his splendid work in leading this mammoth undertaking out for its debut international exposure in 1996 and his surprising death just before the fifth anniversary of the WCMF was a great loss to Dominica.\u00a0 I find it totally unbecoming that very little is said of him during the WCMF season.\u00a0 By and through his work he changed the thinking that only a foreign person could do big things in Dominica.\u00a0 R.I.P Eddie.
\nBut there are more changes I would like to see.<\/p>\n

A change in the thinking of the management that the WCMF is nothing more than three all night shows and recycled musical band performances year after year.\u00a0 That was not the original intention.\u00a0 It was intended to make Dominica the home of creole music and be promoted worldwide that way just like Jamaica for reggae and TNT for calypso.\u00a0 That each year there should be a theme competition and a special WCMF song.\u00a0\u00a0 It was intended to allow our music to be on international platforms and to reach out to the Francophone territories and to be made into a brand that could invade the other territories in the region and the vast possibilities on the African continent.\u00a0 It was intended to go beyond nightly rhythms to exhibitions using other venues, exposures, discussions, and important visitations.\u00a0 It was intended to find a permanent home for the event.\u00a0 I was a member of the original Festival Commission so I know that though we have the signature creole event we have not yet written that signature on the world as it was first intended and envisaged and it is about time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"One of my favourite songs from the group Kassav\u00a0\u00a0 is Tim Tim Bwa Sek which speaks of a lost tradition of days gone when older people would relate stories of things that happened and the moral of those stories to…","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_cbd_carousel_blocks":"[]","footnotes":""},"categories":[13,81],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-105540","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-commentary","category-just-dennis"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\nJUST DENNIS: Those who changed things and made the Creole\/Kweyol difference - 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