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Post by cliveianholloway on Mar 14, 2013 9:24:31 GMT -5
Always been an interest of mine, from calypso to Deejay...
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Post by cliveianholloway on Mar 26, 2013 18:26:21 GMT -5
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Post by Admin on Mar 26, 2013 20:55:35 GMT -5
Great thread. The Creole Choir of Cuba, made up of ten singers descended from Haitian slaves (six women and four men -- Rogelio Torriente, Fidel Miranda, Teresita Miranda, Marcelo Luis, Dalio Vital, Emilia Díaz Chávez, Yordanka Fajardo, Irian Montejo, Marina Fernandez, and Yara Diaz), bring a joyous bounce and groove to everything they touch, as well as a gospel-like intensity. This isn't a choir in the gospel sense, though. In Cuba each region has its own professionally supported choir, not associated with any church, capable of singing at weddings, funerals, birthdays, parties, parades, or anything else that pops up, so these guys are a different kind of choir, and an amazing one. Formed in 1994, the choir set its purpose to revive the old Haitian songs for a new era, and everything is sung in Creole. Signed to Peter Gabriel's Real World Records, the choir has released two albums on the label, 2010's Tande-La and 2013's Santiman.
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Post by Admin on Apr 9, 2013 5:38:12 GMT -5
We have to keep this thread alive...the West Indies has such a rich musical heritage, as Clive says, from Calypso to Deejay. And a great list of artists - Harry Belafonte to Bob Marley to Desi Arnez. And the king of Reggae - Bob Marley
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Post by AlanB on Apr 9, 2013 6:12:48 GMT -5
John Cowley: Carnival Camboulay and Calypso: Tradition In The Making (Cambridge UP, 1996) is THE standard work on this topic. Probably out of print by now.
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Post by Admin on Apr 9, 2013 6:17:44 GMT -5
John Cowley: Carnival Camboulay and Calypso: Tradition In The Making (Cambridge UP, 1996) is THE standard work on this topic. Probably out of print by now. Great News Alan...Amazon has it in stock From Amazon -
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Post by cliveianholloway on Apr 12, 2013 13:23:09 GMT -5
Re. Calypso - The Bear Family box - 'West Indian Rhythm' is a fabulous set
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Post by cliveianholloway on Apr 12, 2013 13:24:17 GMT -5
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Post by Admin on Dec 13, 2013 10:31:45 GMT -5
Article appeared in New York Times www.nytimes.com/1985/03/08/movies/west-indies-musical-history.html#h[]'WEST INDIES,' MUSICAL HISTORY By JANET MASLIN Published: March 8, 1985 Med Hondo's ''West Indies,'' playing today and tomorrow at the Thalia, is a revolutionary musical in both senses of the word. This witty, scathing Mauritanian-Algerian co-production offers an angry view of West Indian history, using imaginative staging and a very fluid visual style. The film's single set is an enormous slave ship, which doubles as anything from a disco to the court of tire history of colonization in the Caribbean. Though this sounds like much more material than a single film can encompass, Mr. Hondo's resourcefulness is a continual surprise. Mobile camerawork and frequent narrative shifts take the actors through various vignettes about French colonists invading the Indies, Caribbean natives lured to Paris, the process by which the islands were first settled and a lot more. The material has the potential for overbearing irony (as with a local black official with his Dubonnet beach umbrella, or the denunciation of ''liars who dare to spread the rumor that happiness does not grow on trees in France!''). But Mr. Hondo has a light touch, even when he shows smiling black tour guides telling dowdy white vistors that ''the bungalows, resembling Caribbean huts, are surrounded with barbed wire to keep out the natives.'' With cast members rotating their way through many different roles (the same actors may play slaves, then worried island villagers, then displaced West Indians who can't find jobs or apartments in Paris), Mr. Hondo leads the film through a long series of well-connected tableaux, culminating in an almost joyous call to arms. The sound track accompaniment to all this varies as effectively as the visuals do, and may be anything from labored breathing (for the slave ship scenes) to calypso music. ''But who will sing the folk songs?'' one calypso singer asks, in reaction to a Government plan to curb overcrowding by encouraging emigration. The film saves its greatest ire for this and other schemes designed to limit the Caribbean's black population. ''West Indies,'' which was made in 1979, is as vibrant as it is ambitious. Considering the scope of its ambitions, that is no small accomplishment. Rage in the Tropics WEST INDIES, directed and written by Med Hondo (French with English subtitles); based on the book ''Les Negriers'' by Daniel Boukman; director of photography, Fran,cois Catonne; edited by Youcef Tobni; music by Georges Rabol; produced by Les Films Soleil O, in association with Yanek Services Ltd., Societe Interafricaine de Production Cinemagraphique, Radiodiffusion Television Algerienne, Office National de Cinema Mauritanien; distributed by Mypheduh Films Inc. At Thalia, Broadway and 95th Street. Running time: 125 minutes. This film has no rating. WITH: Jenny Alpha, Roland Bertin, Gerald Bloncourt, Philippe Clovernot, Jean Paul Denizon, Gabriel Glissant, Georges Hilarion, Kassimo Sterling, Theo Legitimus, Robert Liensol, Elliot Roy, Ti-Emile, Helene Vincent
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Post by Admin on Dec 23, 2013 17:42:00 GMT -5
Mighty Sparrow - Sparrow
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