Whitsuntide, Christmas, Easter are important, each associated with their own musical traditions, as are distinctly Barbadian festivities like the crop over festival and the Landship movement.

The religious music of the Barbadian Christian churches plays an important role in Barbadian musical identity, especially in urban areas.

Along with hymns, oratorios, cantatas and other religious music, chamber music of the Western tradition remains an important part of Barbadian musical through an integral role in the services of the Anglican church.

Though inhabited prior to the 16th century, little is known about Barbadian music before the arrival of the Portuguese in 1536 and then the English in 1627.

Modern Barbadian music is thus largely a combination of English and African elements, with Irish, Scottish, and modern American and Caribbean ( especially Jamaican ) influences as well.

By the 19th century, the Barbadian colonialists grew to fear slave revolts, and specifically, the use of music as a tool of communication and planning for revolution.

At the same time, American and other forms of imported music were brought to Barbados, while many important elements of modern Barbadian music, like tuk bands, also emerged.

Barbadian culture and music are mixtures of European and African elements, with minimal influence from the indigenous peoples of the island, about whom little is known.

Significant numbers of Asian, specifically Chinese and Japanese, people have moved to Barbados, but their music is unstudied and has had little impact on Barbadian music.

Early Barbadian folk music, despite legal restrictions, was a major part of life among the island's slave population.

Barbadian traditional folk songs are heavily influenced by the music of England.

Some Barbadian songs and stories made their way back to England, most famously " Inckle the English Sailor " and " Yarico the Indian Maid ", which became English plays and an opera by George Coleman with music by Samuel Arnold, and first performed in London in 1787.

Pentecostal music has become a part of Barbadian religious and musical traditions since the 1920s.

A number of holidays, festivals and other celebrations play an integral role in Barbadian folk, and popular, music.

Crop over festivals continue to play a part of Barbadian culture, and always feature music by performers in sugarcane-cutting costumes, even though many modern performers are not themselves sugarcane-cutters.

The songs " S & M " and " Only Girl ( In the World )" by Barbadian singer Rihanna are strongly influenced by Eurodance music.

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Barbadian law is rooted historically on English common law, and the Constitution of Barbados implemented in 1966, is supreme law of the land.

The climax of the festival is Kadooment Day celebrated with a national holiday when costume bands fill the streets with pulsating Barbadian rhythms and fireworks that ignite the sky.

The day is celebrated to recognize the Barbadian soldiers who died fighting in the First and Second World Wars.

Executive power is vested in the Barbadian monarch, and is exercised by his or her vice-regal representative, on the advice of the Prime Minister and Cabinet, who, together, form the government.

But, constitutionally, any Barbadian adult is eligible for the job, and Prime Ministers have held office after being elected leader but before taking a seat in the Assembly, or after being defeated in their constituencies.

In October 2009, Dr. Delisle Worrell, who is slated to become the replacement Governor of Barbados ' Central Bank of Barbados and current Executive Director of the Centre for Money and Finance at the UWI Cave Hill Campus revealed that " the average Barbadian now earns between BDS $ 200 and BDS $ 499 per week ...."

Wolof words in English are believed to include yam, from Wolof nyami " to eat food ", nyam in Barbadian English meaning to eat ( also compare Seychellois nyanmnyanm, also meaning to eat ), and hip or hep, as hip cat, from Wolof hepikat " one who has his eyes open " or " one who is aware ".

In 1664, John Vassal founded " Charles Town " with the aid of Barbadian backers on the west bank of what is now the Cape Fear river ( which Vassal named the " Charles River ").

* Loud Tour is the fourth concert tour by Barbadian recording artist Rihanna

Barbadian folk traditions include the Landship movement, which is a satirical, informal organization based on the British navy, tea meetings, tuk bands and numerous traditional songs and dances.

The Barbadian folk tradition is home to a great variety of musical instruments, imported from Africa, Great Britain or other Caribbean islands.

The most central instrument group in Barbadian culture is the percussion instruments.

The Barbadian Landship movement is an informal entertainment organization which mocks, through mimicry and satire, the British navy.

Owen Seymour Arthur, MP ( born October 17, 1949 ) is a Barbadian politician who was Prime Minister of Barbados from 1994 to 2008.

To date, he is the longest serving Barbadian Prime Minister.

Bajan ( Barbadian ) Rum Punch is one of the oldest rum punches and has a simple recipe enshrined in a national rhyme: " One of Sour, Two of Sweet, Three of Strong, Four of Weak.

The national symbol found on top of the helmet for Barbados is the fist of a Barbadian holding two stalks of sugar cane that are crossed to resemble St. Andrew's Cross.

The Barbadian school year is fashioned after the British system, and as such, it follows a scheduling with three terms per school year.

Scotch bonnets are mostly used in West African, Grenadian, Trinidadian, Jamaican, Barbadian, Guyanese, Surinamese, Haitian and Caymanian cuisine and pepper sauces, though they often show up in other Caribbean recipes.

By the end of the 17th century, a distinctly Barbadian folk culture developed, based around influences and instruments from Africa, Britain and other Caribbean islands.

In 2006 a local Barbadian group has hinted that it may seek to form its own nation on Culpepper Island.

File: Bartholomew Roberts Flag1. svg | Roberts ' new flag showed him standing on two skulls, representing the heads of a Barbadian and a Martinican.

Black Bart's new flag showed him standing on two skulls, representing the heads of a Barbadian and a Martiniquian

The most influential Barbadian folk songs are associated with the island's lower-class laborers, who have held on to their folk heritage.

Barbadian villagers burned fingerholes, for example, on bamboo tubes, made trumpets out of conch shells and pipes from pumpkin vines.

She landed her first major breakthrough as a songwriter, co-writing Rihanna's song " Cheers " featured on " Loud " which is the fifth studio album by Barbadian recording artist Rihanna, released November 12, 2010 on Def Jam Recordings.

In June 1988 Worrell was celebrated on the $ 2 Barbadian stamp alongside the Barbados Cricket Buckle.

Williams, of Barbadian ancestry, was rather a novelty on British TV at the time, being a black man with a broad Yorkshire accent.

The aircraft Laker Airways allocated to International Caribbean Airways sported International Caribbean as well as the Barbadian flag on both sides of the forward fuselage in place of Laker and the Union Flag featured by the company's other aircraft.

* About Barbadian cuisine 11 November 2011, on Where in the World is Matt Lauer?

It also undertakes supervision of Barbadian financial institutions, credit worthiness of the financial system, administering of the international reserves, and reporting regularly to the country on the national finances.

The 97 men and three women (" the doyenne of English women's cricket, Netta Rheinberg, the Pakistani journalist Fareshteh Gati and the Barbadian commentator Donna Symmonds ") on the panel were each given five votes with which to select the list.

Additionally, Weekes served on the executive of the Barbados Cricket Association for many years and helped develop many leading Barbadian players, including Conrad Hunte and Seymour Nurse, both deeply influenced by Weekes.

The Barbadian nationality law is governed by the Law on Citizenship of Barbados ( the Barbados Citizenship Act ), and by the Barbadian Constitution.

The only exceptions are persons born on Barbadian soil whose parents possess diplomatic immunity and aren't Barbadian citizens, or children of enemy occupiers of Barbadian soil, or if neither parent is a citizen of Barbados ( except in certain situations of statelessness for the child, where the mother is a Barbadian citizen — or a UK / Colonies citizen if the birth was prior to 30 Nov 1966, or if the mother cannot be determined ), or persons born aboard foreign-registered vessels located in Barbados.