{"id":77269,"date":"2012-10-25T09:35:03","date_gmt":"2012-10-25T13:35:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dominicanewsonline.com\/news\/?p=77269"},"modified":"2012-10-25T11:07:31","modified_gmt":"2012-10-25T15:07:31","slug":"dennis-joseph-weekly-dbs-radio-and-the-making-of-the-king-creole","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dominicanewsonline.com\/news\/homepage\/columns\/just-dennis\/dennis-joseph-weekly-dbs-radio-and-the-making-of-the-king-creole\/","title":{"rendered":"DENNIS JOSEPH WEEKLY: DBS Radio and the making of the King Creole"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_67106\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-67106\" style=\"width: 193px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-67106\" title=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/dominicanewsonline.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/dennis-joseph.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"193\" height=\"290\" srcset=\"https:\/\/dominicanewsonline.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/dennis-joseph.jpg 193w, https:\/\/dominicanewsonline.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/dennis-joseph-99x150.jpg 99w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 193px) 100vw, 193px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-67106\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Dennis Joseph<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Language is the foundation of civilization\u00a0 and without a systematic form of communication used and understood by all, then nothing could ever be done. Language is older than history, so the actual birth of language, metaphorically speaking, took place too long ago to be recorded.\u00a0\u00a0 However, in Waitikubuli we are lucky to be able to live at an exciting time when there is the opportunity to fully create a language from the bottom up-our\u00a0 \u201dlange maman nou\u201d Creole tongue.<\/p>\n<p>Our creole language was in danger of becoming extinct with the coming of increased access to radio and the proper English BBC news until\u00a0 the\u00a0 Leblanc administration of the sixties introduced the\u00a0 National Day Gala with its \u2018patwa\u2019 dominated competitions.\u00a0 However there was a disdainful and dismissive attitude towards it by the Roseau based population who referred to the participants as clownish \u2018country bookie\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>At the end of the sixteenth century, European expansion and colonization was a primary catalyst for many of the\u00a0 Creoles known today.\u00a0 In the horrible days of the African slave trade after\u00a0 months of being together and coming from different backgrounds the slaves were ingenious enough to create a makeshift language or pidgin to facilitate interaction..\u00a0 In Waitikubuli the slaves adopted a French\u00a0 pidgin\u00a0 and in time it was\u00a0 adopted by the community as a language,\u00a0 becoming creole through a process of expansion of vocabulary and grammar called creolisation.<\/p>\n<p>The capitalist and materialistic culture of America and Europe is still enslaving the culture of Waitikubuli.\u00a0\u00a0 In the seventies the late Orlando (PIWI) Peltier and followed later by the Gaylords Power Union Talent Committee held weekly talent shows in the then Carib Cinema\u00a0 and\u00a0 the talent leaned towards foreign cultures.\u00a0 It is the same today though it had been hoped that with the introduction of Cadence. Zook, and Bouyon it would have been less so but it cannot be when it appears that the biggest thing in\u00a0 our World Creole Music Festival (WCMF) is most times a reggae band from Jamaica.\u00a0 I am not knocking reggae the Bob Marley estate earned USD17 million in the last 12 months and set\u00a0 to do it again.\u00a0 If our island home is not to be absorbed, we must struggle to keep the things that identify us\u00a0 and one of them is our Creole tongue which for us could be more properly called Kweyol..<\/p>\n<p>I recall in 1969 when the band, with which I performed, the Gaylords Power Union (GPU), released its first album titled \u2018To Dominica with Love\u2019 one of the efforts I made, as a composer and\u00a0 producer of the album was to include \u2018patwa\u2019 in the lyrics of some of the songs.\u00a0 Some fans of the GPU were totally disgusted\u00a0 and made me hear that in really creative, yes, \u2018patwa\u2019.<\/p>\n<p>I decided to continue when\u00a0 I was appointed Manager of\u00a0 Radio Dominica in 1975.\u00a0 and successfully sought to change the name to (Dominica Broadcasting Service)DBS.\u00a0 I then took up the challenge with the support of the staff of introducing for the first time regular \u2018patwa\u2019 programs.\u00a0 This set off a firestorm placing the station staff and myself in the line of sickening attacks from a significant section of the population who promoted a \u201chigh culture\u201d and who saw \u2018patwa\u2019 as a \u2018dirty language\u2019 and an expression of social and intellectual backwardness.\u00a0 Ferdinand Frampton with his engaging \u2018patwa\u2019 style was the station\u2019s front man on air at that time.<\/p>\n<p>Even our promotion of Cadence Music by its creators Exile One and others like, yes, Jeff Joseph and Grammacks though it seems unbelievable today,\u00a0\u00a0 met with stiff criticism by\u00a0 those who simply believed that anything with local \u2018patwa\u2019 was degrading. But I refused to budge and\u00a0 though there was this resistance to cadence music dominating DBS music output it was that very music that brought out the formidable talent of our artists and a number of bands were formed that ended up in Guadeloupe joyfully performing \u2018patwa\u2019 songs\u00a0 and adopting the description of their music style as Creole music. It was satisfying that\u00a0 by the time I left the station four\u00a0 years later the \u2018patwa\u2019\u00a0 programs had become so popular that no one would have dared put the brakes on them.\u00a0 By then it was known as Creole.<\/p>\n<p>In the years 1975 \u2013 1979 in particular DBS Radio stood like a\u00a0 linguistic agent in the continued resistance to outside domination of the island\u2019s culture.\u00a0\u00a0 The station struggled against the notions that denounced \u2018patwa\u2019 because it emerged from black slaves and was the language\u00a0 ghettoed to the \u201ccountry folk.\u201d\u00a0 Today our creole tongue surges as King every time we hit the month of October and\u00a0\u00a0 we\u00a0 hear of multitudes of things that are Creole.\u00a0\u00a0 It is time to formalize and teach the language in our schools and use this gift more productively and indeed more proudly.\u00a0 It is time that the\u00a0 language\u00a0 be truly crowned and be part of our formal learning experience. It is time to work on it and text book it.\u00a0 After all we teach Spanish and French in our schools, why not our mother\u2019s tongue?<\/p>\n<p><em>P.S : Please note that my final article in this series will be next week.\u00a0 Based and depending on your reviews and feedback to the editor the series will continue\u00a0 in January 2013.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Listen to the audio version of the article below.<\/p>\n<audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-77269-1\" preload=\"metadata\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"http:\/\/dominicanewsonline.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/DBS-and-the-mking-of-creole-king.mp3?_=1\" \/><a href=\"http:\/\/dominicanewsonline.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/DBS-and-the-mking-of-creole-king.mp3\">http:\/\/dominicanewsonline.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/DBS-and-the-mking-of-creole-king.mp3<\/a><\/audio>\n<p><strong>Opinions expressed in this article do not necessarily reflect those of Dominica News Online or its advertisers.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Language is the foundation of civilization\u00a0 and without a systematic form of communication used and understood by all, then nothing could ever be done. 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