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Users who like Music and the Story of Haiti- From Vodou to Compas to Racine to Rara and Beyond Users who reposted Music and the Story of Haiti- From Vodou to Compas to Racine to Rara and Beyond Playlists containing Music and the Story of Haiti- From Vodou to Compas to Racine to Rara and Beyond by Afropop Worldwide published on 2012-11-25T22:39:29Z [APWW #540] [Originally aired 2007] Haiti became the first black-ruled republic in the Americas in 1804, and music has mirrored, and at times shaped, the twists and turns of Haiti's politics and culture ever since. A primary source of Haitian culture is Dahomey, the birthplace of vodou--the most commonly held world view among Haitian people today. We explore how each of Haiti's rulers has championed his own preferred music. The Duvalier dictators favored compas dance music, and suppressed the most African-identified cultural expressions.
Yet the revolution in Saint-Domingue was making a modern world. Today, Saint-Domingue is called Haiti, and it is the poorest nation in the Western Hemisphere. But Haitiâs revolutionary birth was the most revolutionary revolution in an age of them. By the time it was over, these people, once seemingly crushed between the rollers of European empire, ruled the country in which they had been enslaved.