This festival is most popular in Parintins, which is a city that also celebrates the “Amazon River's natural environment and caboclo culture.” Caboclo culture is the mix of indigenous and …show more content…
The urban youth at this time also wanted a modern sounding music, since the “country mento” played at the time was not very popular. Building off of American R&B, the Jamaican youths created a “shuffle beat” based dance genre in which guitar and piano stabs were heard on the off beats, which was never heard previously. Due to poor economic environment at the time the music was hard to be heard, since there were no records stores and only a select few of Jamaicans had record players. It was even hard for local ska bands to play at clubs since they didn't have proper technological equipment. However, ska began to take off with the invention of the sound system. The sound system consisted of “one or two turntables, a powerful amplifier and speakers.” Deejays also became popular around this time by hyping up the crowd and talking over the instrumental tracks. During these performances, armed thugs were on stage in order to protect the sound equipment. Large groups of people began to watch these performances in urban areas which began to increase the popularity of