Issue 6 No 1 (August 2021)

THEME:
Creating a Caribbean Sense of Place:
Calypso, Spoken Word & the Oral Tradition
EDITORS:
Paula Morgan and Amílcar Sanatan

The Mighty Shadow and Shadow as Robber by Nicholas Huggins

The Mighty Shadow and Shadow as Robber by Nicholas Huggins ©

INTRODUCTION

Voice Tracks: Creating a Caribbean Sense of Place
Amílcar Sanatan

ESSAYS

“Who Taking Advantage Ah Who”: Sparrow & Caribbean Man/Woman Relations
Patricia Mohammed
Disrupting the Art form: Women & Calypso, 1950- 2000
O'Neil Joseph
Freedom Undefined: Breaking (Neo)colonial Stereotypes through Voice & Performance in the Poetry of Grace Nichols
Hannah Regis

INTERVIEWS

Adrian Green Wielding Spoken Word as Weapon: The Making of an Artiste
Matthew Murrell
Writing and Performing the Nation:
Interview with Paul Keens-Douglas on Orality & Caribbean Literature
Amílcar Sanatan
Reclaiming Roots Through Performance: An Interview with Pearl Eintou Springer
Essah Díaz
My Life is a Rapso:
An Interview with Brother Resistance on Rapso & Cultural Activism in Trinidad &Tobago
Marisha Duncan

VISUAL ESSAY

The Baby Doll: Memory, Myths & Mas
Amanda McIntyre

TRIBUTES

Louis Regis: A Widening Absence (3 Years Later)
Rawle Gibbons
A Tribute to Louis Regis
Gordon Rohlehr
A Retrospective on Brian Honoré, the Midnight Robber
Fédon Honoré

CREATIVE NON-FICTION

A World of Poetry & Spoken Word
Amílcar Sanatan

REVIEW

Play the Devil: Florentino & the Devil by Alberto Torrealba
Andre Bagoo

VIDEOS

Spoken Word & Funerals by Derron Sandy
Carnival Imagination: Interview with Wendell Manwarren by Maria Nunes
Part One
Part Two
Blue by Ruth Osman and Arielle John
CONTRIBUTORS
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