By Caribbean Beat ● Issue 16 (November/December 1995)
Caribbean Bookshelf (November/December 1995)
Music Bachata: A Social History Of Dominican Popular Music Deborah Pacini Hernandez (Temple University Press, Philadelphia, 1995) When the...
Culture, Literature, Trinidad and Tobago
By Judy Raymond ● Issue 17 (January/February 1996)
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...
By Caribbean Beat ● Issue 17 (January/February 1996)
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...
Culture, Environment, Arts, Lifestyle
By Merle Gunby ● Issue 18 (March/April 1996)
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...
Culture, Music, People, Barbados
By Roxan Kinas ● Issue 18 (March/April 1996)
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...
Culture, Literature, Music, Reviews
By Caribbean Beat ● Issue 18 (March/April 1996)
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...
By Caribbean Beat ● Issue 19 (May/June 1996)
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...
By Caribbean Beat ● Issue 19 (May/June 1996)
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;...