Bruckins, also spelled brukins, is a Jamaican dance performed primarily to celebrate Emancipation Day. A dance, whose music has both European and African elements, Bruckins is a "stately, dipping-gliding" dance, and may be derived from the

Pavane The ''pavane'' ( ; it, pavana, ''padovana''; german: Paduana) is a slow processional dance common in Europe during the 16th century (Renaissance). The pavane, the earliest-known music for which was published in Venice by Ottaviano Petrucci, ...

. Bruckins is accompanied by an elaborate pageant, in which participants dress as European royalty and/or members of the royal court (courtiers, pages, soldiers, etc.). Sabine Sörgel has said that the first Bruckins was celebrated in 1834, after the formal abolition of

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; however, Olive Lewin states that the first Bruckins was only in 1839, after the elimination of the "apprenticeship" system.Rock It Come Over: the folk music of Jamaica, with special reference to Kumina and the work of Mrs. Imogene "Queenie" Kennedy
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