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I want to see allyuh answers.

spell it wrong.

j'ouvert- i opened....daiz de french-english translation.

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yeah, run some credits nuh.

i think iz morning beginning...something do do with the new dawn

can someone tell me what is the meaning of mas?

day opened = opening of the day = sunrise

short for masquerade....

This might be of help?

http://www.bbc.co.uk/1xtra/events/tr...ctionary.shtml

I know what mas is what i'm trying to say what is the meaning behind all of it

What? Just what he said; the masquerading of the bands.

And J'ouvert means 'Break of dawn' SOS. Wha kinna question is dah?

Contraction of Jour Overt...however it spelled...opening of day...or daybreak.

yuh sig is crazy

From very early morning thousands and thousands of people jumping up behind drums, iron bands, steelbands, brass bands, and unfortunately sound systems too. Some people might be uniformed as a masquerading jouvert bands, and or also with paint, oil and mud. I think long ago it use to be sweeter in the sense that some of these different bands would clash but today there are not as many bands.

I only wish I had the chance to witness Burning Flames in a jouvert in Antigua to see how the crowd does go on. Sometime in the future I will witness Red Hot Flames do their thing

i was watchin synergy and Peter c was sking plenty people this very question and none of them had an answer I wanted to c what kind of answers I will get here. But all those that didnt know will come bawling break of morning now they see allyuh post the true meaning lol

I will go with the start of KANIVAL

This is an excerpt from an email Shurwayne Winchester sent to me in Feb 2002. I was doing some research on j'ouvert and since he has a song, it thought it was great to get his input.


"Some things in Jourver't would be different depending on what Island you are from, but the foundation is the same. Jourver't is about _expression, it's that one morning when all is let loose, and the old reigns as king and queen on the road.
Demons are one of the more portrayed aspects of jourver't they represent all the negatives around, and both man woman and child are allowed to tell their story by their dress code and behaviour. Men in women's clothes, drinking from old vessels like a posie, snakes around the necks and on shoulders of the masqueraders are also favorites.
In Tobago the biggest part of our jourvert is mud. Eight thousand and more would be covered in mud chanting old slangs as if to awaken the dead. Any thing old is the wear on that morning. In one of my songs "Jourver't" tells a whole story of jourver't.
Jab, jab is a favourite chant. These people would dress to look like Satan,demons or any evil, and taunt, frighten you into paying for your life. Forks in their hands they would come closer and closer chanting "Jab'jab pay the devil." One dollar or two would avoid you getting mud paint or any thing they are covered with thrown all over you.
Stories are told and scenes can be seen acted of social events, history on the whole can be seen that morning. Jourver't is freedom, Jourvert is missbehaviour, Jourver't is pure madness.
To be tidy on Jourvert is an insult. Rags are called for to look the part, and white means war. Any reveler seeing white would attack to be the first to dirty the person in white."

Literal explanation Opening day...corruption from French JOUR OUVERT...over time it turned into J'ouvert...