This evening is dedicated to calypso music.
The calypso mainly developed in Trinidad from the social conflict and censorship endured by the population. Superstition, life and death, money, status and the relationship between men and women are all paid attention to in the texts.
1. CD ‘Fall of Man: Calypsos, Humain Condition‘ (1935-1941). Label: Rounder (1999), code: CD-1141. Video
2. CD ‘Calypso Awakening from the Emory Cook Collection‘.
Label: Smithsonian Folkways Recordings (2000), code: SPW CD 40453.
3. CD ‘Calypso in New York’, Lord Invader.
Label: Smithsonian Folkways Recordings (2000), code: SPW CD 40454. Video
4. CD Neville Marcano, ‘The Crowling Tiger of Calypso‘.
Label: Rounder (1998), code: CD 1717. Video
5. CD ‘Brukdon! Shine eye gal‘. (Belizean Calypso).
Label: Corason (1994), code: COCD118.
6. CD ‘Steel Band Music of The Caribean‘ , BWIA Sunjet Steel Orchestra & Calypso Joe.
Label: Dynamic sound recording co. Ltd. (1999), code: SOW 90185. Video
7. CD ‘Goodnight Ladies and Gents’, Lionel Belasco.
Label: Rounder (1999), code: CD 1138. Video
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