

Issue 69 (September/October 2004)
This special issue celebrates our region’s musical heritage with a list of 250 of the most influential, musically accomplished, and best-beloved songs from the Anglophone Caribbean; Simon Lee pays homage to the late, great Andre Tanker; James Fergos on Edwidge Danticat’s “The Farming of Bones”; the Buzz around the islands; Caribbean cookup, and more!

Anthony Winkler’s new book of short stories tackles life’s big questions with healthy mirth • Hilary Beckles challenges the notion of quiet little Barbados • Hollis “Chalkdust” Liverpool offers calypso lore and commentary, straight From the Horse’s Mouth • “Being Here”, a poem from Guyana-born Cyril Dabydeen’s new collection, Hemisphere of Love • Jeffrey Stollmeyer’s opinionated 1948–49 diary chronicles the West Indies cricket team’s first tour of India

Music Buzz (September/October 2004)
On True Love, Toots and the Maytals revisit their hit-strewn career with a little help from their friends • Sheldon Blackman’s 2000 album Remember Me is back — with a difference • Creole music lovers head to Dominica at the end of October • Are anglophone music fans ready for Chris Combette’s cool folk-jazz-reggae fusion? • Plus Gregory Isaacs, Sabbattical Ahdah, Jah Mason, and Luciano in our Rhythm Roundup

What Accent? A Trini in Barbados | Classic | Last Word
Adanna Austin never though about her Trini accent — till she went to Barbados. Originally published in 2004, this Beat classic was reproduced in the September/October 2019 issue

André Tanker: Like a Liberation
Trinidad’s late, great musical genius André Tanker on the roots of his music — as told to Simon Lee

Deadly Frontier: Edwidge Danticat’s “The Farming of Bones”
James Ferguson on Edwidge Danticat’s novel The Farming of Bones, a harrowing story of one of the most horrific events in Caribbean history

Personal Favourites
Garry Steckles pays tribute to 11 Caribbean songs that didn’t make this issue’s “250 best” list

Vegetable Horrors
Anu Lakhan is terrified of vegetables. Then she goes to Jamaica and is faced with an ital meal • Robert Clarke shares fond beer-drinking memories • The ambivalent chennette: so bad it's good? • Paul Yellin's Infusion! has no time for Caribbean culinary clichés

Buzzworthy (September/October 2004)
Anthony Winkler’s new book of short stories tackles life’s big questions with healthy mirth • Hilary Beckles challenges the notion of quiet little Barbados • Hollis “Chalkdust” Liverpool offers calypso lore and commentary, straight From the Horse’s Mouth • “Being Here”, a poem from Guyana-born Cyril Dabydeen’s new collection, Hemisphere of Love • Jeffrey Stollmeyer’s opinionated 1948–49 diary chronicles the West Indies cricket team’s first tour of India

The Buzz Feature (September/October 2004)
Talented Dominican reggae artist Nasio Fontaine has been hailed as “the late, great Bob Marley reincarnated”. Find out why

Screen Buzz (September/October 2004)
The animation, film, and new media festival Animae Caribe brings artists and storytellers together to find new ways to express Caribbean life • Trinidad and Tobago is crazy for Philomena Alexis Baptiste, the sassy new star of the Gayelle TV channel. Now Philo Mania is about to break out in New York