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	Music of the Lesser Antilles - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Lesser Antilles is an island chain composed of Martinique, Guadeloupe, Dominica, Trinidad and Tobago, Aruba and the Netherlands Antilles, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, Anguilla, Antigua and Barbuda, Barbados, Grenada, Virgin Islands, Saint Lucia, Saint Kitts and Nevis and Montserrat.
		Music author Peter Manuel has argued that, despite the modern Anglophone focus to calypso-like song traditions, their origins lie in the "Afro-French creole culture", and notes that the ancestor of the word calypso, cariso, was first used to refer to a Martinican singer.
		Music authors Charles De Ledesma and Gene Scaramuzzo trace zouk's development to the Guadeloupan gwo ka and Martinican tambour and twi ba folk traditions.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Music_of_the_Lesser_Antilles (2929 words)

	Soca music - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Soca is a dance music which is a mix of Trinidad's calypso and Indian music and rhythms, especially chutney music—it is not, as is often said, a fusion of soul and calypso.
		Lord Shorty was disillusioned with the genre by the 1980s because soca was being used to "celebrate the female bottom, rather than uplift the spirits of the people".
		Chutney music: A fusion of traditional Indian percussion and style of singing and Calypso; Tempo usually around 154 BPM
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Soca_music (405 words)

	Music Sample Analysis
		Music is a major sphere of activity during the buildup to Carnival.
		As commercial popular music, soca music and “socalypsos” (calypsos based on the soca style—most calypsos released in the last ten or 15 years) are mainly disseminated on recordings.
		Many other forms of music allow people to explore their values and experiences and various visions of themselves as they are seen by outsiders.
	chnm.gmu.edu /worldhistorysources/unpacking/musicanalysis.html (2926 words)

	The Origin of Calypso Music - Caribbean Culture
		Early Calypso music in Trinidad was sung in French patios, and was used as a covert way to ridicule the upper class and slaveholders.
		The appeal of Calypso music broadened over the years and it became a tradition for Calypso singing competitions to be held annually, during the carnival season.
		But Calypso is considered the heart of Trinidadian music and although it has become highly commercialized, this musical genre continues to shape the social consciousness of Trinidad.
	www.bellaonline.com /articles/art24048.asp (353 words)

	village voice > music > by Baz Dreisinger
		Trinidadian music, after all, was Jamaican music before Jamaican music was.
		The genre was inaugurated in 1973 by Trinidadian Lord Shorty, who felt the soul of calypso was as multicultural as Trinidad's population: a near even split between peoples of African and East Indian descent.
		His music is frenetic, hovering at 165 bpms, and given this tempo, Garlin says he's honed in on a potential niche: "It's easier for my kind of soca to cross over into the techno or the house market."
	www.villagevoice.com /music/0507,dreisinger,61120,22.html (1648 words)

	trinidad (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		The cultural activities of Trinidadians flourish in the areas of literature, theatre, and dance with prominent individuals such as Ramabai Espinet, Jeff Henry, Frank Birbalsingh, Sam Selvon, and Neil Bissoondath.
		Trinidadian music has had considerable impact on Canadian popular music culture in night clubs in Toronto, Montreal, and Vancouver with styles as diverse as calypso, steel band, soca, and has influenced the emerging Hip Hop Canadian sound.
		As a result of their heritage in a diverse country, Trinidadians are well situated to play a critical role in Canada’s emerging multicultural nation building in the new millennium.
	collections.ic.gc.ca /heirloom_series/volume7/countries/trinidad.html (708 words)

	African Music Encyclopedia: Glossary: African Styles of Music
		Also called mbira-based music, one of the best examples of this sound is the music of Thomas Mapfumo.
		Morrocan music of people descended from the slaves brought from Mali in the 16th century.
		a musical style from Mali typified by a strong Arabic feel along with the sound of the scraping karinyang, women play the fle, a calabash strung with cowrie shells, which they spin and throw into the air in time to the music.
	www.africanmusic.org /glossary.html (792 words)

	Guardian \| Calypso kings
		But the oldest of these musical forms is the calypso - the music and lyrics associated with the Trinidad Carnival - which, according to Lloyd Bradley, became "the official sound-track of fl Britain" in the 1950s and early 1960s.
		Though not musically trained, he played and sang a little and when he and a friend landed a job in the famous Minstrel Show, they were bitten by the showbiz bug.
		Unlike later fl British music, which has been dominated by the prevalence of almost unintelligibly deep Jamaican patois, the calypso's rhymes depend on the Trinidadian accent, but the language is otherwise well-enunciated in Caribbean standard English.
	www.guardian.co.uk /print/0,3858,4449509-110917,00.html (2181 words)

	Journal of Folklore Research - Book Notes
		Through her wonderful work Music of Hindu Trinidad: Songs from the India Diaspora, Helen Myers answers these questions by tracing the history and the development of the musical traditions of the Indian community in Trinidad.
		Chapters 6 and 7 are devoted to a folk taxonomy of musical terms and the history of Indian music in Trinidad.
		Chapter 16 shows that music is central to the lives of the people in all their rites of passage except death.
	iupjournals.org /folklore/book/hindu.html (722 words)

	CBMR Digest Vol. 13 No. 2 Fall 2000 - Rediscovering Trinidad Folk Music
		In light of the upcoming 2001 Inter-American Conference on Black Music in Trinidad, Kalinda column readers might be curious about local musical traditions beyond the well-known steelbands and calypso.
		Alan Lomax began recording and researching the music of the Lesser Antilles in 1962 with the aid of the Rockefeller Foundation, partly inspired by his support for the institution of a Federation of the West Indies (Lomax, Elder, and Hawes 1997, x).
		Trinidadian scholar J. Elder provides local authority in the form of a narrative that recounts personal experiences as both a Trinidadian child performing this repertoire and as an adult scholar analyzing it.
	www.cbmr.org /pubs/132/kalinda132.htm (768 words)

	Countrybookshop.co.uk - Music in Trinidad - Carnival
		'Music in Trinidad: Carnival', appropriate for use in undergraduate, introductory courses on world music or ethnomusicology, describes the musical conventions, modes of performance, and social dynamics of Trinidadian music, placing the music of Carnival within the context of Trinidad's rich history and culture.
		Music in Trinidad explores how the history and culture of Trinidad is related to the expression and interpretation of Carnival music, the musical tradition most representative of Trinidadian culture.
		Music in Trinidad includes many vivid accounts and illustrations of Carnival performances and is packaged with a 70-minute CD that includes examples of the various genres of Carnival music.
	www.countrybookshop.co.uk /books/index.phtml?whatfor=0195138333 (234 words)

	Caribbean Beat: Archives
		With over a decade of musical collaborations, umpteen tours, and several hit albums behind her, Ivy Queen is in a good position to comment on reggaeton’s meteoric rise.
		In 2003, Gonsalves embarked on a project to “explore the roots of calypso music”, and King Kalenda was born.
		Her success as a music video director has been a dream come true; Set It Off was the birth of a new dream, a way for Stewart to give something back.
	meppublishers.com /online/caribbean-beat/archive/index.php?id=cb74-2-19 (4684 words)

	Arrow - Soca Superstar Among Honourees In Antigua
		On Wednesday night, this Caribbean music icon was honoured by the Antigua Jaycees during their 43rd Caribbean Queen Show with the Caribbean Award for his outstanding contribution to the development of soca and calypso music in general, across the Caribbean.
		Alphonsus "The Mighty Arrow" Cassell was born in Montserrat (the Emerald Isle of the Caribbean) and is known internationally as the "King of Soca'.
		Arrow has over 33 music albums to his name and made history when he became the first soca artiste to have been awarded the prestigious Member of the British Empire (MBE) from Her Majesty, Queen Elizabeth II.
	www.sweetsoca.com /profiles/arrow.htm (446 words)

	Music, Power, and Politics - Introduction
		None of the essays makes a claim for the power of music itself to persuade, coerce, resist, or suppress; rather, the authors address the uses to which music is put, the controls placed on it, and discursive treatments of it.
		The theme of music in totalitarian contexts links Sweers’ essay with Keith Howard’s “Dancing for the Eternal President,” a study of modern-day Korean mass dancing in public, government-sponsored spectacles.
		Laudan Nooshin, the principal organizer of the BFE meeting and head of the program committee is owed a huge debt of gratitude for her vision in coordinating this extremely stimulating conference.
	musicpowerpolitics.com /intro.html (854 words)

	Calypso Downloads - Download Calypso Music - Download Calypso MP3s
		The musical output of Trinidad and Tobago -- Calypso, steel band music, and soca -- is centered around the carnival season that begins shortly after Christmas and culminates with Carnival Tuesday, the day before the Catholic feast of Ash Wednesday.
		In protest, he wrote a scorching indictment of the Trinidadian music industry, "arnival Boycott." Despite his refusal to compete in the Carnival contests for the next three years, Sparrow became one of the Caribbean's most successful artists.
		Fortunately for archivists and music lovers everywhere, his painstaking documentation of the music and cultures of the world will be educating and enriching the lives of curious listeners for centuries to come.
	www.mp3.com /calypso/genre/820/subgenre.html (2990 words)

	Trinidad and Tobago: Swallow the Liquid Fire - Part 1
		Ruins of a fractured Self… …the Trinidadian Self… A possibility still to be born.
		Music …noise …stories…discoursing…shit talking… discussing other people’s business… arguing …cussing …beating on the tables… bottle and spoon… singing… lots of vibration… Orality – of all kinds celebrated… The oral is very important for Trinidadian masculinity.
		Ahhhh…and chutney, the most rum intense of all Trinidadian music forms, the very pulsing of the liquid in the bloodstream is modulated to the vibration of the music…the wining gyrating fertility dance…
	www.trinidad-tobago.net /Article.aspx?PageId=44 (2096 words)

	Golden Age of Calypso
		Calypso is one of the many musical forms that resulted from the collision of African and European cultures in the New World.
		Due to the banning of drums during the era of slavery Trinidadian music did not maintain the vigorous drumming traditions that survived elsewhere - notably in Brazil and Cuba.
		The institution of the calypso tent was another factor in the development of calypso as an 'indoor' music to be listened to.
	www.popacat.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk /goldage.htm (2218 words)

	pu:feastlib:mrf:yinyue:texts:fr161island.html
		Their impact upon the general public was minimal, however, and Trinidadian music was ignored by the American record companies for another seven years.
		Jamaica's recolonised indigenous music was mento, a guitar-accompanied atrophic song deeply influenced by calypso.
		The music on offer was a diverse selection: hillbilly, Latin, jazz, pop and rhythm and blues, but it was the new, energetic RandB that most young Jamaicans responded to.
	bolingo.org /audio/texts/fr161island.html (3159 words)

	monographs
		This acclaimed study of Charles Ives's music is reprinted, with addenda, from the 1977 edition by Oxford University Press.
		The editor's inside story of modern music's influential "little magazine," with a heady mixture of reminiscences and reports, excerpts from Modern Music articles, and unpublished letters and photographs.
		The Music of Henry Ainsworth's Psalter (Amsterdam, 1612)
	depthome.brooklyn.cuny.edu /isam/monogrph.html (1482 words)

	Welcome to Byron Lee Music (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		Joey Lewis (left), Trinidadian veteran musician presents Byron Lee with a plaque at the recent Caribbean Brass Festival, in Trinidad for his 30 years of involvement in Trinidad Carnival.
		However, over the years they have relaxed that feeling and realised that music is a global thing.
		"They have also come to realise that Trinidadian music is played across the globe and that country has earned the distinction of being the Mother of Carnival and the University of Soca," Mr.
	www.byronleemusic.com /soca_mecca_honours.html (277 words)

	Various Artists: Lif Up Yuh Leg an Trample - PopMatters Music Review
		The bulk of Trinidad's music is the fruit of this event -- as the record's press release duly notes, Carnival in Trinidad is "a way of life and the entire calendar seems to be built around it" -- and has been thoroughly documented through a glut of pastiche Soca Gold-type compilations.
		The intelligence of the compilation is immediately exemplified in its opening tracks' connection of modern Trinidadian music to their African roots.
		Similarly, amidst the farting keyboards, frantic chanting, and stock fire sirens of Timmy's "Bumpa Catch a Fire", another West African-styled rhythmic trait is used to drive the song: a flurry of drums crash in on the and-of-1 over a steady four pulse, creating a layered polyrhythm that is deceptively complex.
	www.popmatters.com /music/reviews/various/various-lifupyuhleg.shtml (1135 words)

	SUMMARY OF DR
		Calypso Calaloo: Early Trinidadian Carnival Music, University Press of Florida, 1993, published in both hardback and paperback editions (110,000 words; 45 photographs, maps, and other figures; appendix of song lyrics; index; compact disc with notes).
		Music consultant for “New York Underground: The Building of the City’s First Subway” which aired on PBS on Monday, February 17, 1997 as part of the continuing series, “The American Experience.” Three recordings from the Hill Sound and Music Archive are included in the film.
		Music consultant for “Riding the Rails,” a film shown at the Sundance Film Festival, Winter 1997 (film includes “Ozarks Humming” tune based on Arkansas field recording in the Hill Sound and Music Archive).
	employees.oneonta.edu /hilldr/Fall2000Vita.html (5723 words)

	What is Parang?
		The local revelry that is parang is the visiting of merrymakers to the homes of family, friends or patrons to sing songs in Spanish to the accompaniment of certain musical instruments; usually, the guitar, the cuatro, the maracas or chac-chacs, the mandolin, the bandolin, the violin and the bandola and sometimes the cello.
		To synthesize, parang is the act of merrymaking, music, dance, and food typical of the Hispanic community of Trinidad.
		The most notable of these are the Santa Rosa Festival at the end of August, the velorio del cruz (or cross-wake), and the Seyboucan festival in May. In Trinidadian vernacular, parang is a signifier of "Spanish" or Hispanic-derived culture on the whole, in a similar fashion to "East Indian music" or "Chinese music".
	aingram.web.wesleyan.edu /parangdescription.html (972 words)

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