I'm tempted to open a "Bahamiology" thread on subject drift guilt alone here but...

It's all relative. The same 800-pound gorilla that (almost) put up a Junkanoo-Carnival headlined by Janet Jackson had great-grandparents too.

On some islands, in season, the mainlanders outnumber the residents. Trying to distill one culture from the other is a fool's errand imo.

Take the most recorded version of Peas & Rice for example:

Words by Wolfe Gilbert, American by way of Zsarist Russia.
Music by Charles Lofthouse, born and raised in Nassau, the son of an American Methodist missionary.
Arranged by: John Johnson, American by way of the Bahamas and Haiti.

Love that cultural chowder, yum.