"Funeral Dance" — from Don't Stop the Carnival (1998).
In Amerigo, Carnival was as hallowed as Christmas itself, perhaps slightly more
so.
There was a meaning to it. See, Islanders did not put into words, yet which
made it the authentic supreme day in the Kinjian calendar.
Africa was marching down the main street of this little harbor town today.
Africa, in undimmed black vitality, surging up out of centuries of island
displacement, island slavery, island isolation, island ignorance.
Africa, unquenchable in its burning love of life.
Carnival was Africa Day in Amerigo.
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- From Don't Stop the Carnival (1998). The funeral dance — the Caribbean tradition of celebrating the dead. The second-line parade, the music at the burial. Life asserting itself through the death ritual.