9321: Re: 9303: Ra-Ra (fwd)

[Bob Corbett <corbetre@webster.edu>]

From: "Benjamin J. Hebblethwaite" <bhebblet@indiana.edu>

Hi Martha,

I think it is important to note that the use of alcoholic beverages,
and in particular, "kleren," an unrefined rum, is rife in many "bann
rara," "rara bands."  The combination of that drug with the frenetic
ryhthms, soaring free-spirited songs, and an overall jacked-up
ambiance, is going to produce reverly and chaos in Haiti and any
other country for that matter.

Ben Hebblethwaite