Arts

Culture, Literature, Reviews

Caribbean Bookshelf (November/December 1995)

Music Bachata: A Social History Of Dominican Popular Music Deborah Pacini Hernandez (Temple University Press, Philadelphia, 1995) When the...

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Culture, Literature, Trinidad and Tobago

Indigo: Marina Warner

The English writer Marina Warner was almost a Trinidadian. In the 1970s, when Britain s nationality laws were changed, she realised that if...

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Culture, Music, Reviews

Upbeat (Nov/Dec 1996)

Viva Le King The Roaring Lion (Ice Records 951002) Here’s an album that successfully combines vintage calypso with modern styling. In...

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Culture, Environment, Arts, Lifestyle

Turtle Watching in the Caribbean: Out of the Deep

Merle Gunby watches as one of the earth’s oldest and strangest creatures – the Leatherback turtle – carries out her nesting...

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Culture, Music, People, Barbados

Arturo Tappin – Tappin’ into the Music

The place was a decorator’s nightmare. This bar was almost new, but it had that half-broken outdoor-furniture look, with garish...

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Culture, Literature, Music, Reviews

Upbeat & Bookshelf (March/April 1996)

Music Tales From A Strange Land David Rudder (Lypsoland) Since 1986, when he burst onto the Carnival scene by capturing every calypso title...

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Culture, Music, Reviews

Upbeat (May/June 1996)

The Ultimate Party — Pump Me Up Krosfyah “Bajan posse! Trinbago massive! St Lucia and Grenada! Jamaica and Anti gua! We are all...

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Culture, Literature, Reviews

Bookshelf (May/June 1996)

 The Autobiography Of My Mother Jamaica Kincaid (Farrar Straus Giroux, 1996) Jamaica Kincaid was born in Antigua and is based in Vermont;...

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