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	Calypso music - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Calypso is a style of Afro-Caribbean music which originated in the British and French colonial islands of the Caribbean at about the start of the 20th century.
		The first calypso recordings came in 1914, and inaugurated the Golden Age of Calypso.
		The most well-known calypso, however, is the "Banana Boat Song", a traditional Jamaican folk song, whose best-known rendition was done by Harry Belafonte on his 1956 album Calypso; Calypso was the first full-length record to sell more than a million copies.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Calypso_music (582 words)

	Music of Trinidad and Tobago - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Calypso was developed on the island of Trinidad, and has since become one of the major musical ancestors of diverse styles, including reggae, soca and rapso.
		As calypso developed, the role of the griot (originally a similar traveling musician in West Africa) became known as a chantuelle and eventually, calypsonian.
		Calypso was popularized after the abolition of slavery and the ensuing growth of the Carnival festivals in the 1830s.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Lavway (1817 words)

	What is Calypso? (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
		Calypso is any song that after 1898 was sung at carnival time in Trinidad - either in the street by revellers or in staged performances by singers.
		Oratorical calypso originates from ritual boasts, or picong, spoken by costumed characters.
		Indoor calypsos place emphasis on lyrics over melody, and are telling a story; Standard English is the mark of the day and the use of hyperbole and critical commentary is the norm.
	www.socanews.com /editorial/factfile/printer_1040.shtml (303 words)

	Wikipedia: Music of Trinidad and Tobago
		In 1834, these two celebrations began a merger because the slaves were emancipated, while the islands' ethnic mix further diversified by the mass migration of Indians beginning in 1838.
		Mighty Sparrow's first hit was "Jean and Dinah", celebrating the departure of American military forces from Trinidad; the song launched a new generation of politically active calypso music, which soon became associated with the People's National Movement.
		Lancelot Layne is said to have invented the genre with his 1971 hit "Blown Away", while Cheryl Byron brought rapso to calypso tents in 1976.
	www.factbook.org /wikipedia/en/m/mu/music_of_trinidad_and_tobago.html (1556 words)

	LAMECA - Calypso & Steelbands (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
		Calypso, (also known as kaiso), and steelband, though today two distinct genres, grew historically from the same tradition of Carnival.
		Yet, organised today (like calypsos) in a succession of competitions which,, govern the entire movement and the very musical aesthetics at a national level, steelbands are still subject to organisation from above, a possible heritage of the colonial system.
		Steelbands and calypsos were born of the separation of the solo singers from the music of Trinidad Carnival; thus linked through a common history, they still maintain a close relationship.
	svr1.cg971.fr /lameca/dossiers/calypso/musique_eng.html (812 words)

	Lord Pretender of Trinidad & Tobago
		He began singing calypso at age 12, ironically with an ode to a young girl whom he promised to meet on resurrection day, a song he sang at the Redhead Sailor calypso tent.
		He was hailed in the calypso fraternity as the Extempo Grandmaster.
		He was considered the master of the calypso genre of extempore, composing on the spot in oratorical war.
	www.search.co.tt /dir/pretender/passing.html (1608 words)

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		He was politician, lawyer, orator, poet, philosopher, professor of rhetoric, moralist, grammarian, political writer, correspondent; he encompassed all human knowledge, involved himself in all human matters and was a very great writer.
		He was in addition a great orator; he was also a historian, or at least a philosopher of history, in his _City of God_; finally, he was a poet at heart and imbued with the most exquisite sensibility in his immortal _Confessions_.
		BOSSUET.--Bossuet is universally admitted to be the king of French orators; all his life he preached with a serious, imposing, vast, copious, and sonorous eloquence, fed from recollections of Holy Writ and of the Fathers, being insistent, convincing, and persuasive.
	www.gutenberg.org /dirs/etext05/7ilit10.txt (16507 words)

	Hugh Blair's Lecture Summaries
		But the orator must not be satisfied with convincing; he must address himself to the passions; he must paint to the fancy, and touch the heart.
		Much of the orator's art and ability is shown, in thus striking properly at the commencement, the key note, if we may so express it, of the rest of his oration.
		A true orator should be a person of generous sentiments, of warm feelings, and a mind turned towards the admiration of all those great and high objects, which mankind are naturally formed to admire.
	www.msu.edu /~ransford/summaries.html (21095 words)

	Lord Pretender, 84, a King of Calypso - New York Times
		Lord Pretender, the last of the great calypso musicians of the 1930's, died at his home here on Jan. 22.
		Pulsating calypso was born in Trinidad in the 19th century as carnival music that included social criticism.
		Lord Pretender was considered the master of the calypso genre of extempore, composing on the spot in oratorical war.
	query.nytimes.com /gst/fullpage.html?res=9E07E7D6173CF93BA35751C0A9649C8B63 (161 words)

	Works of Lucian, Vol. IV: Notes Explanatory of Allusions to Persons, &c.
		An Athenian orator, in the Macedonian interest; but put to death by Antipater, 318 B.C. An Athenian citizen was officially described by the addition of the names of his father, his deme, and his tribe, to his own.
		Orator and sophist, of Leontini in Sicily, fifth century B.C. He is a character in one of Plato's dialogues.
		The story of his appearing at the Olympic games with a golden thigh is one of the later legends illustrative of his supposed assumption of superhuman qualities, which made him the model of impostors or half-impostors like Apollonius of Tyana, Alexander of Abonutichus, or Paracelsus.
	www.sacred-texts.com /cla/luc/wl4/wl433.htm (11689 words)

	Module-Line Code <UNIT3.ALL> DOCUMENT Document 1 of 1
		Calypso will be discussed in relation to both its form and its content.
		Topics to be analysed will include the specific linguistic characteristics of oral compositions, calypso as oratorical warfare, calypso as social and political commentary and calypsonians' treatment of gender relationships.
		An important component of the module will be a study of EK Brathwaite's Arrivants trilogy as an epic of the Black diaspora and as a text which incorporates a number of New World and African oral forms.
	www.unl.ac.uk:9999 /SEARCH/BASIS/unit3/all/Document/DDW?M=1&W=CODE='EN252' (612 words)

	Cycle of love, hate and deceit
		Mr Farrakhan may not have the mainstream respectability of the Rev Jessie Jackson or the Rev Al Sharpton, but in the hurley burley of American public life, this one-time Calypso singer has emerged as a powerful and disturbing voice incarnating the rage of a substantial section of the voiceless dispossessed.
		Mr Farrakhan's destructive simplicities resonating through high notes of oratorical incoherence are presumably some of his attractions.
		The appeal to the gut can be as great an emotional experience as one to the heart or, dare one say it, to the head.
	www.thehindubusinessline.com /2001/08/14/stories/041444pr.htm (1276 words)

	Trinidad News, Trinidad Newspaper, Trinidad Sports, Trinidad politics, Trinidad and Tobago, Tobago News, Trinidad ...
		It was but all we could take, given the trotting out of what defending national calypso monarch Chalkdust once described as "schoolboy kaiso," a stringing together of platitudes and clichés set to music, some melodies quite familiar and a show that broke for intermission at midnight, promising another phalanx of singers after the band rested.
		In his time at the lectern, Protector said he was due at rehearsals elsewhere but decided to stay for the full show based on the promise of a good night of calypso.
		To wade through four hours of songs which, in the distillate, delivered only four showstoppers is hardly a compelling argument for traditional calypso and in fact, provokes debate over the title "Klassic".
	www.trinidadexpress.com /index.pl/article_news?id=53739717 (681 words)

	Baron Dave Romm's Music Recommendations Page 2 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
		Calypso, reggae, New Orleans jazz, New York punk, etc. This site points out "The derivation of calypso rhythms can be traced back to the arrival of the first African slaves to Barbados and other Caribbean islands in the seventeenth century.
		Calypso is a unique form of music that is an integral part of the Barbadian cultural landscape." While this site says "Calypso is yet another Trinidadian invention.
		Calypso is the musician's form of political satire.
	www.romm.org /CD2.html (18654 words)

	Bryn Mawr Classical Review 2004.01.27
		This apprehension "emerges in much more explicit form in the classical period, when professional orators seek to shrug off any indications of being too obviously versatile in their speaking styles, especially in relation to the representation of character type" (80-81).
		Chapter 3 -- by far the least satisfying of the whole book -- deals with the visible attributes of Helen and Odysseus in the Iliad and the Odyssey, or "their elusive or changeable physical types matching their distracting or mutable verbal styles" (83).
		The rest of W.'s discussion handles (in widely disparate terms) the interaction between Odysseus and various goddesses (Circe, Calypso, and Ino), Telemachus, Penelope, and (more compellingly) Nausicaa.
	ccat.sas.upenn.edu /bmcr/2004/2004-01-27.html (2147 words)

	Lord Pretender, calypso great, dies at 84: 1/25/02
		PORT-OF-SPAIN, Trinidad -- Lord Pretender, considered the last of the great calypso musicians of the 1930s, has died at age 84.
		In a calypso career spanning 72 years, "Preddie" started at age 12 alongside the greats of the era -- Roaring Lion, Beginner, Attila the Hun and Executor.
		Pretender, whose real name was Aldric Farrell -- many calypso musicians use stage names -- placed third in the first calypso king competition of 1939.
	www.s-t.com /daily/01-02/01-25-02/a12wn075.htm (240 words)

	Cicero - Humanities - Saint Anselm College (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
		For there are many to whom I yield precedence in knowledge of philosophy; but if I lay claim to the orator’s peculiar ability to speak with propriety, clearness, elegance, I think my claim is in a measure justified, for I have spent my life in that profession.
		But Cato had been endowed by nature with an austerity beyond belief, and he himself had strengthened it by unswerving consistency and had remained ever true to his purpose and fixed resolve; and it was for him to die rather than to look upon the face of a tyrant.
		As for stage-people, their custom, because of its traditional discipline, carries modesty to such a point that an actor would never step out upon the stage without a breech-cloth on, for fear he might make an improper exhibition, if by some accident certain parts of his person should happen to become exposed.
	www.anselm.edu /academic/humanities/cicero.html (16704 words)

	Greek Island Hopping On Crewed Yacht Charter Sailing Holiday In The Dodecanese
		One or the other, the island or Calypso, charmed him for seven years.
		We can put you aboard a charter yacht with an experienced crew able to show you the Aegean islands of Greece, the Dodecanese and the Sporades, or we can put you aboard a crewed yacht to cruise Cleopatra's route from Cedrae and Kos up the Turkish coast to Ionian Miletus.
		Alcibiades, handsome, athletic, oratorical*, a leader of men, is a favorite of novelists.
	www.shoretechnology.com /tgeweb/Itinerary4.htm (2060 words)

	[No title]
		Why was it important to the development and exposure of Calypso?
		14) What was the early function of calypso and the why is it said that current calypso is still related to that of the “dark days”?
		Attila the Hun, Black Stalin, Calypso Rose, Chalkdust, Kitchener, Pretneder, Ras Shorty I, Roaring Lion, David Rudder, Shadow, Sparrow, Supper Blue.
	www.music.gsu.edu /facsturesources/historyandlit/greene/compculture/CMC-Chp1-Questions.doc (738 words)

	The Origins of Contemporary France, Volume 1 - The Ancient Regime By Hippolyte A. Taine- book-3 Chapter 2 from Nalanda ...
		Classic literature throughout bears the imprint of this talent; there is no branch of it into which the qualities of a good discourse do not enter and form a part.
		Not only does it impose a rigid plan, a regular distribution of parts{26} in dramatic works, accurate proportions, suppressions and connections, a sequence and progress, as in a passage of eloquence, but again it tolerates only the most perfect discourse.
		There is no character that is not an accomplished orator; with Corneille and Racine, with Molière himself, the confidant, the barbarian king, the young cavalier, the drawing room coquette, the valet, all show themselves adepts in the use of language.
	www.nalanda.nitc.ac.in /resources/english/etext-project/history/ancientfr/book-3chapter2.html (6143 words)

	Humanities Festival to Feature the Caribbean's Finest - University of the Virgin Islands Press Release
		Along with presentations by members from the wider Caribbean, the Humanities Festival will feature local musicians like Stanley and the Ten Sleepless Nights and dance groups like the St. Croix Heritage Dancers.
		There will be a panel discussion and oratorical contest.
		There will also be poetry and short story readings and open mic sessions.
	www.uvi.edu /pub-relations/pressRelease/rel03143.html (809 words)

	Antigua Sun (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
		South Coast Optimist Club of Antigua is encouraging children to participate in its annual oratorical contest.
		The activity is geared to developing the children’s public speaking skills and to make use of an opportunity to voice their opinions.
		The Oratorical Contest challenges them to do just that and also offers an opportunity for scholarships.
	www.antiguasun.com /paper/?as=view&sun=280831098104072006&an=403530087304072006&ac=Local (424 words)

	The Big School (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
		Sometime in the first term the finals of the Malayan Oratorical Contest was held.
		One afternoon, we were treated to the spectacle of sixteen contenders - six for the Senior Orator title, the remainder for the Junior title - battling for honours.
		In the end, Robert Abraham carried away the Senior Orator title as that other Abraham, surnamed Lincoln, while K.B. Thuraisingam, humbled the Second and Third Formers and was named Junior Orator.
	www.viweb.freehosting.net /bigschool3.htm (12637 words)

	Summer Programs (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
		Throughout the course, students develop the skills necessary to appreciate the diversity and commonalities of places and people around the world.
		Students develop their ability to read philosophical, oratorical, and dramatic texts by focusing on expanding their knowledge of vocabulary and mastering intermediate Greek grammatical constructions.
		Students complete the course having covered the material typically found in the second year of a traditional high school Ancient Greek course or the second semester of an introductory college Ancient Greek course.
	www.jhu.edu /~gifted/ctysummer/employment/humanities.html (5689 words)

	Admiral Nelson Lashes Out at the Church - BarbadosForum.bb, TELLING-IT-LIKE-IT-IS
		Nelson told the audience if one could get the Li’l Ricks and Timmys into a church, maybe they would realise how their actions were “eroding” the moral fibre of the society.
		He said the church did not have a problem with calypso, but with the lyrical content of the songs.
		There are certain religions that want nothing to do with calypso music — the beat alone turns them off without listening to the lyrics.
	www.barbadosforum.com /index.php?showtopic=1179 (2866 words)

	Newman Reader - Church of the Fathers - Chapter 3
		The friends had been educated for rhetoricians, and their oratorical powers were such, that they seemed to have every prize in prospect which a secular ambition could desire.
		Their names were known far and wide, their attainments acknowledged by enemies, and they themselves personally popular in their circle of acquaintance.
		A plain lies beneath, enriched by the waters which are ever draining off upon it; and skirted by a spontaneous profusion of trees almost thick enough to be a fence; so as even to surpass Calypso's Island, which Homer seems to have considered the most beautiful spot on earth.
	www.newmanreader.org /works/historical/volume2/fathers/chapter3.html (6444 words)

	Abstracts for Individual Presentations
		The revitalization of acoustic steel pan music, traditional calypso, and old mas costuming during J’Ouvert will be discussed.
		The influence of the interviewer (or audience, using an interchangeable term), in determining performance is clearly evident in oral interviews.
		In an effective interview, the interviewee considers the audience when making his/her oratorical and poetic choices.
	afsnet.org /annualmeet/1999/absa-b.htm (5292 words)

	MusicDish Industry e-Journal
		O'Reilly responded to that issue by not responding to that issue, choosing instead to play to the audience's emotions -- defending the honor and reputations of our nation's police personnel rather than admitting that.
		The source of O'Reilly's reputed powers of persuasion have never rested on his intellectual or oratorical gifts.
		They reside exclusively in his inclination to simply blow off his guests in mid-sentence and get the camera back onto himself with rhetorical coups-de-grace like, "These guys are deeply embedded in the music industry and that's the way the music industry feels." Badda-boom.
	www.musicdish.com /mag?id=9235 (1593 words)

	Lornell, Spottswood, Cowley
		They also parallel the oratorical calypso in Trinidad.
		It's the same kind of word-based thing, so it may actually be a world wide English speaking movement in terms of the Americas.
		There are phases of interest and the period that Dick's describing vis-a-vis the 40's, and 50's, and into the early 60's there was a broader based approach by people that were interested then.
	www.bluesworld.com /Lornell.htm (7055 words)

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