Carifesta symposium hears "sweet soca promoting toxic behaviour" [This could be a real interesting discussion for LYRICS LOVERS!!!]

[Claude Gonzales]

Trinidad Guardian

8/20/2019

"So­ca mu­sic has cre­at­ed re­in­force­ment of some neg­a­tive be­hav­iours in our so­ci­ety".

This was an ar­gu­ment put for­ward by Dr. Sueann Bar­ratt dur­ing the pan­el “Where we go­ing with So­ca? Eval­u­at­ing An Art Form Through Machel Mon­tano’s mu­sic” at a Car­ifes­ta sym­po­sium.

Dr Bar­ratt has a PHD in In­ter­dis­ci­pli­nary Gen­der Stud­ies (IGDS).

The pan­el was part of Car­ifes­ta’s Jour­ney Round My­self Sym­po­sium held at the Uni­ver­si­ty of the West In­dies’ De­part­ment of Cre­ative Fes­ti­val Arts Main Hall on Mon­day.

Bar­ratt, re­fer­ring to the crit­i­cism lob­bied against Farmer Nap­py’s ‘Hook­ing Meh’ in Bar­ba­dos ear­li­er this year, said many times songs we en­joyed of­ten pro­vid­ed an un­der­tone which sup­ports abu­sive be­hav­iour in re­la­tion­ships.

Crit­ics had claimed that the song and its video pro­mot­ed tox­ic mas­cu­line be­hav­iour in re­la­tion­ships and en­cour­aged do­mes­tic vi­o­lence.

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