Calypso

• Author : Craig Martin Gibbs
• Publisher : McFarland
• Release : 30 April 2015

Calypso, with its diverse cultural heritage, was the most significant Caribbean musical form from World War I to Trinidad and Tobago Independence in 1962. Though wildly popular in mid-1950s America, Calypso--along with other music from "the island of the hummingbird"--has been largely neglected or forgotten. This first-ever discography of the first 50 years of Trinidadian music includes all the major artists, as well as many obscure performers. Chronological entries for 78 rpm recordings give bibliographical references, periodicals, websites and the recording

• Author : Lawrence Scott
• Publisher : Allison & Busby
• Release : 21 August 2014

LONGLISTED FOR THE INTERNATIONAL IMPAC DUBLIN LITERARY AWARD 1938 is a tumultuous year on the small Trinidadian island of El Caracol, which houses a leper colony and a convent. In the sultry heat of the dry season a young orphan, Theo, is sent to live with the island’s doctor, Vincent Metivier. The doctor knows little of Theo’s past, only that it has been troubled and that he now needs love and attention. As Theo settles into the rhythm of

• Author : David Sedaris
• Publisher : Hachette UK
• Release : 29 May 2018

'Sedaris is the premier observer of our world and its weirdnesses' Adam Kay, author of This is Going to Hurt 'He's like an American Alan Bennett' Guardian 'Unquestionably the king of comic writing . . . Calypso is both funnier and more heartbreaking than pretty much anything out there' Hadley Freeman, Guardian 'Entrancing . . . This book allows us to observed not just the nimble-mouthed elf of his previous work, but a man in his seventh decade expunging his darker secrets and contemplating mortality . . . The

• Author : Francio Guadeloupe
• Publisher : Univ of California Press
• Release : 30 December 2008

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

• Author : Charles Butler
• Publisher : Unknown
• Release : 05 August 2021

Sweetholm is a small island sheltering in the Bristol channel, best known for its colonies of seabirds and seals and the picturesque ruins of St Brigan's Priory. When Geoff and Hilary Robinson are offered the opportunity to caretake a house there for the summer, they see it as a perfect opportunity to work at patching up their marriage. Their teenage daughter Tansy also welcomes it as a chance to put behind her her unnerving and unsuccessful experiments in magic in

• Author : John Cowley
• Publisher : Cambridge University Press
• Release : 05 August 1998

This book traces the evolution of Carnival in Trinidad and beyond, using fascinating documentary evidence.

• Author : Shane Vogel
• Publisher : University of Chicago Press
• Release : 07 September 2018

In 1956 Harry Belafonte’s Calypso became the first LP to sell more than a million copies. For a few fleeting months, calypso music was the top-selling genre in the US—it even threatened to supplant rock and roll. Stolen Time provides a vivid cultural history of this moment and outlines a new framework—black fad performance—for understanding race, performance, and mass culture in the twentieth century United States. Vogel situates the calypso craze within a cycle of cultural appropriation,

• Author : Jacques Cousteau,Alexis Sivirine
• Publisher : Harry N Abrams Incorporated
• Release : 05 August 1983

A study of Cousteau's specially designed ship "Calypso" details the vessel's technical modifications, and equipment and discusses Cousteau's diverse scientific expeditions and investigations

• Author : Tyne O'Connell
• Publisher : Bloomsbury USA Childrens
• Release : 18 April 2006

How many fit boys can Calypso handle? Calypso has decided that Prince Freddie is the one for her, but does her new roommate, the privileged Lady Portia, also have designs on him? To make matters worse, Calypso's best friends Star and Georgina are no longer her roommates; they are living instead with Indie-a new student and a real princess! Poor Calypso is feeling left out. How could her plans have gone so horribly wrong? Readers who have been anticipating the

• Author : Tony Langham
• Publisher : Unknown
• Release : 05 August 2021

Ten kinds of spiders and insects use a variety of instruments to make calypso music, in a story which includes notes about the insects and the instruments they play.

• Author : Rudolph Ottley
• Publisher : Unknown
• Release : 05 August 1992

• Author : Catherine Coulter
• Publisher : Penguin
• Release : 05 August 1999

It is 1813 in London. The Earl of Saint Leven, Lyonel Ashton, doesn't like women, and he's every reason not to. But fate intervenes.

• Author : Rawle Gibbons
• Publisher : Unknown
• Release : 05 August 1999

This drama trilogy shows the story of the Calypso art form over four decades of social and artistic change, 1930-1970. Sing de Chorus, the first in the series, recreates the conditions and conflicts that made the 1930s the classical era of the Calypso and placed the art on the international stage. Ah Wanna Fall is built around the Absurdist genius of Spoiler, who characterized the transitions of post-war Trinidad. Ten to One crowns the series with the triumphant rise of

• Author : Sabah Ahsan
• Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
• Release : 01 June 2012

Calypso was ten years old when she fi rst fell in love. Her and Ariston's love story started on a holiday in France. But circumstances are not on their side resulting in them drifting apart. Eight years have passed, will destiny let them meet again? Tamara missed Ariston. The hope of meeting him again is the only thing that keeps her going, the thing that stops her from losing her mind. Apart from him, no-one could ever understand what Tamara

• Author : Mike Coward
• Publisher : Unknown
• Release : 05 August 2021

The story of one of the best summers of cricket ever played, the famous 1960-61 West Indies tour of Australia.