The Political Calypso

Author : Louis Regis
Publisher : University Press of Florida
Page : 277 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Music
ISBN : 0813015804

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"A significant contribution to the field of calypso studies. . . . Few published works have taken this extensive a look at the political calypsos and what informs them."--Keith Q. Warner, George Mason University, author of Kaiso! The Trinidad Calypso Calypso, a traditional form of music in the Caribbean, began in Trinidad and Tobago as a subtle protest against British rule. Influenced by African and native Caribbean rhythms, the calypso (along with Jamaican reggae) defines the music of the region. Louis Regis examines the evolution of the political calypso from 1962 to 1987, the period of Trinidad/Tobago's independence from Britain, and presents the text of lyrics from this popular folk-urban musical form. Following the songs and their themes chronologically from 1962 forward, Regis discovers the social history, cultural attitudes, and political commentary embedded within the music. He discusses the uneasy alliance between the performer and the politician, the political moods and postures emphasized in the songs, and the national identity of the calypso. Drawing upon voluminous research, Regis's study brings to light little-known and unrecorded songs. With a concluding chapter on the calypso's artistic and performance elements, it will appeal both to specialists in ethnomusicology and to general readers who enjoy the calypso. Louis Regis, the author of Maestro: The True Master and Black Stalin: The Caribbean Man, is one of the West Indies' foremost authorities on the calypso. He teaches at Pleasantville Senior Comprehensive School in Trinidad.

Author : Louis Regis
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : History
ISBN : UGA:32108030537776

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The Political Calypso by Louis Regis Pdf

Calypso, a traditional form of music in the Caribbean, began in Trinidad and Tobago as a subtle protest against British rule. Influenced by African and native Caribbean rhythms, the calypso (along with Jamaican reggae) defines the music of the region. Louis Regis examines the evolution of the political calypso from 1962 to 1987, the period of Trinidad/Tobago's independence from Britain, and presents the text of lyrics from this popular folk-urban musical form.Following the songs and their themes chronologically from 1962 forward, Regis discovers the social history, cultural attitudes, and political commentary embedded within the music. He discusses the uneasy alliance between the performer and the politician, the political moods and postures emphasized in the songs, and the national identity of the calypso.Drawing upon voluminous research, Regis's study brings to light little-known and unrecorded songs. With a concluding chapter on the calypso's artistic and performance elements, it will appeal both to specialists in ethnomusicology and to general readers who enjoy the calypso.

Author : Everard M. Phillips
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 121 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Calypso (Music)
ISBN : 9768223286

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The Political Calypso by Everard M. Phillips Pdf

Author : Sandra Pouchet Paquet,Patricia Joan Saunders,Stephen Stuempfle
Publisher : Ian Randle Publishers
Page : 411 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9789766372903

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Music, Memory, Resistance by Sandra Pouchet Paquet,Patricia Joan Saunders,Stephen Stuempfle Pdf

"Calypsonians have long been the 'voice of the people', delivering the complaints, criticisms and even the solutions to political leaders. In its earliest manifestations, calypso music emerged in response to a cultural climate that demanded creative modes of expression that could both resist and record political and historical changes taking place in Trinidad and Tobago. Since the 1920s and 1930s, calypsonians typically have composed songs that chronicle their observations and opinions on current events focusing on specific occurrences, from local scandals to current affairs while also examining broader trends. Not only has calypso served as an unofficial record of historical events, it emerged as a cultural weapon that yielded tremendous sway within the general audiences of the Caribbean region. This collection includes contributions from calypsonians, critics, novelists and poets alike, all engaged in representing Caribbean culture in its myriad forms. It represents an array of convergences across critical perspectives, political and social agendas, generations and national boundaries. The work of numerous calypsonians and other singers are explored, including Sparrow; Kitchener; Chalkdust; Denise Belfon; and writers such as Samuel Selvon, V.S. Naipaul, Jean Rhys, Errol John, Paul Marshall, Earl Lovelace and Lashkmi Persaud. The comparative analyses provide an interdisciplinary approach to Cultural Studies making the volume essential reading for students, scholars and calypso enthusiasts. "

Author : Garth L. Green,Philip W. Scher
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 546 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2007-03-28
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780253116727

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Trinidad Carnival by Garth L. Green,Philip W. Scher Pdf

Like many Caribbean nations, Trinidad has felt the effects of globalization on its economy, politics, and expressive culture. Even Carnival, once a clandestine folk celebration, has been transformed into a major transnational festival. In Trinidad Carnival, Garth L. Green, Philip W. Scher, and an international group of scholars explore Carnival as a reflection of the nation and culture of Trinidad and Trinidadians worldwide. The nine essays cover topics such as women in Carnival, the politics and poetics of Carnival, Carnival and cultural memory, Carnival as a tourist enterprise, the steelband music of Carnival, Calypso music on the world stage, Carnival and rap, and Carnival as a global celebration. For readers interested in the history and current expression of Carnival, this volume offers a multidimensional and transnational view of Carnival as a representation of Trinidad and Caribbean culture everywhere. Contributors are Robin Balliger, Shannon Dudley, Pamela R. Franco, Patricia A. de Freitas, Ray Funk, Garth L. Green, Donald R. Hill, Lyndon Phillip, Victoria Razak, and Philip W. Scher.

Author : Jocelyne Guilbault
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 372 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2007-09-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9780226310602

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Governing Sound by Jocelyne Guilbault Pdf

Written in two parts, part 1 explores the development of Calypso, from it's emergence in the pre-colonial period to the post colonial period. In part 2, the focus is on the new Carnival musical practices of soca, rapso, chutney, soca and ragga soca, and the ways in which they contirbuted to the redefination of Trinidadian cultural politics in the neoliberal era. The new rationailities, contigencies, desires and musical experments that animated the new musics and enabled them to gradually displace calypso from its centrality as national expression is examined.

Author : John Wharton Lowe
Publisher : UNC Press Books
Page : 464 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2016-02-08
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781469626215

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Calypso Magnolia by John Wharton Lowe Pdf

In this far-reaching literary history, John Wharton Lowe remakes the map of American culture by revealing the deep, persistent connections between the ideas and works produced by writers of the American South and the Caribbean. Lowe demonstrates that a tendency to separate literary canons by national and regional boundaries has led critics to ignore deep ties across highly permeable borders. Focusing on writers and literatures from the Deep South and Gulf states in relation to places including Mexico, Haiti, and Cuba, Lowe reconfigures the geography of southern literature as encompassing the "circumCaribbean," a dynamic framework within which to reconsider literary history, genre, and aesthetics. Considering thematic concerns such as race, migration, forced exile, and colonial and postcolonial identity, Lowe contends that southern literature and culture have always transcended the physical and political boundaries of the American South. Lowe uses cross-cultural readings of nineteenth- and twentieth-century writers, including William Faulkner, Martin Delany, Zora Neale Hurston, George Lamming, Cristina Garcia, Edouard Glissant, and Madison Smartt Bell, among many others, to make his argument. These literary figures, Lowe argues, help us uncover new ways of thinking about the shared culture of the South and Caribbean while demonstrating that southern literature has roots even farther south than we realize.

Author : V. S. Naipaul
Publisher : Vintage Canada
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2012-11-13
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780307370617

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Miguel Street by V. S. Naipaul Pdf

To the residents of Miguel Street, a derelict corner of Trinidad’s capital, their neighbourhood is a complete world, where everybody is quite different from everybody else. There’s Popo the carpenter, who neglects his livelihood to build “the thing without a name;” Man-man, who goes from running for public office to staging his own crucifixion; Big Foot, the dreaded bully with glass tear ducts; and the lovely Mrs. Hereira, in thrall to her monstrous husband. Their lives (and the legends their neighbours construct around them) are rendered by V. S. Naipaul with Dickensian verve and Chekhovian compassion in this tender, funny novel.

Author : Keith Q. Warner
Publisher : Heinemann
Page : 172 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 1983
Category : Calypso
ISBN : IND:39000000438064

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The Trinidad Calypso by Keith Q. Warner Pdf

Author : Curwen Best
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Music
ISBN : PSU:000049952254

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Barbadian Popular Music and the Politics of Caribbean Culture by Curwen Best Pdf

Author : Francio Guadeloupe
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2008-12-30
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780520942639

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Chanting Down the New Jerusalem by Francio Guadeloupe Pdf

In this brilliantly evocative ethnography, Francio Guadeloupe probes the ethos and attitude created by radio disc jockeys on the binational Caribbean island of Saint Martin/Sint Maarten. Examining the intersection of Christianity, calypso, and capitalism, Guadeloupe shows how a multiethnic and multireligious island nation, where livelihoods depend on tourism, has managed to encourage all social classes to transcend their ethnic and religious differences. In his pathbreaking analysis, Guadeloupe credits the island DJs, whose formulations of Christian faith, musical creativity, and capitalist survival express ordinary people's hopes and fears and promote tolerance.

Author : Steinberg Henry
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
Page : 435 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2014-01-16
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781493154661

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Calypso Drift by Steinberg Henry Pdf

Steinberg Henry has composed for us this magical island adventure into song. It is made up of 14 segments and 119 chapters integrating leaps in consciousness, methods and disciplines with skill surprising. Calypso Drift passes by way of an island Parliament, Dread/Rastafari, memorable black-sand beaches, religious systems, the Kwyl language business, high-school learning remembrances, a touch of Kalinago sensibility and, American song selections on Caribbean radio in the 70s and 80s. The text leaps to record seven years of Dominican Calypso lyrics, contributing in the process to archiving an islands history. Calypso Drift implores us to listen again to warnings of our song-poets. This is a book for lovers of Calypso globally, one for culture enthusiasts. Those embracing entertainment education, history and the arts in general should find its methods provocative. Students in the natural and social sciences can comfortably uncover themselves herein. And most of all, musicians, song-writers, composers and performers of Calypso find space in its consuming fire. Drift, globality is inside!

Author : Geoffrey Wagner
Publisher : Regnery Publishing
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 1988-01-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 089526773X

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Red Calypso by Geoffrey Wagner Pdf

Red Calypso tells the story of Grenada's fall to Marxist tyranny and the United States' rescue of the island from a violent and fanatical government. When Maurice Bishop took over the government of Grenada establishing a one-party state on Leninist principles, he did not know that he would one day fall victim to his own machinery. The terror, corruption, and absurdity of Bishop's regime have never been described so vividly as in this eye-witness account which analyses the brief experiment in Grenadian communism and the American invasion which ended it.

Author : Gordon Rohlehr
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 684 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 1990
Category : Calypso (Music)
ISBN : UTEXAS:059173017231308

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Calypso & Society in Pre-independence Trinidad by Gordon Rohlehr Pdf

Author : Daniel Miller
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0226526003

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Material Cultures by Daniel Miller Pdf

The field of material culture, while historically well established, has recently enjoyed something of a renaissance. Methods once dominated by Marxist- and commodity-oriented analyses and by the study of objects as symbols are giving way to a more ethnographic approach to artifacts. This orientation is the cornerstone of the essays presented in Material Cultures. A collection of case studies which move from the domestic sphere to the global arena, the volume includes examinations of the soundscape produced by home radios, catalog shopping, the role of paper in the workplace, and the relationship between the production and consumption of Coca-Cola in Trinidad. The diversity of the essays is mediated by their common commitment to ethnography with a material focus. Rather than examine objects as mirages of media or language, Material Cultures emphasizes how the study of objects not only contributes to an understanding of artifacts but is also an effective means for studying social values and contradictions.