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Ah, it’s the day after Christmas—a time when homes once bustling with festive holiday cheer begin to return to a sense of normalcy. The floor is littered with wrapping paper, discarded boxes, and tinsel. December 26 may be dedicated to tasks like returning unwanted gifts, tidying up the remnants of celebration, catching a football game, or assembling toys Santa forgot to put together in his workshop, unless you find yourself in the Bahamas, where December 26 is not just about the boring post-holiday routine. It’s Junkanoo time! Brief History Junkanoo is a street festival celebration that takes place a few times a year in the Bahamas, on Boxing Day (December 26), New Year’s Day, Independence Day, and some summer holidays. However, the most popular celebrations occur on Boxing Day and New Years Day in Nassau. Today, Junkanoo is marked by elaborate handmade floats groups of people or “rushers” who march and dance through the streets in rich costumes to soul-stirring music (Donaldson, 20...

  Music and Roots.  Title: "Soulful and Uplifting: The Power of Gospel Music"     I I did my musical roots on Gospel.  When I researched this genre, I noticed this name over and over again. Roots of Gospel: Gospel music's roots can be traced back to the 1930's.  The Library of Congress notes in the page titled " African American Gospel" that " During the 1930s, Gospel music emerged from the coalescing of three types of musical activity: a) the hymn style of Charles Albert Tindley (1851-1933) a Philadelphia minister who composed hymns based on negro spirituals, adding instrumental accompaniments, improvisation and "bluesified" third and seventh intervals; b) the minimalist, solo-sung "rural Gospel" tunes that appeared as a counterpart to the rural blues; and c) the uninhibited, exuberant worship style of the Holiness-Pentecostal branch of the Christian church." (1).  But the true Gospel that we hear today is based upon the Blues ...