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West Indian rhythm : Trinidad calypsos on world and local events featuring the censored recordings, 1938-1940

Title
  1. West Indian rhythm : Trinidad calypsos on world and local events featuring the censored recordings, 1938-1940 / the Classic Calypso Collective.
Published by
  1. Germany : Bear Family Records, 2006.
Author
  1. Classic Calypso Collective.

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Additional authors
  1. Decca Record Company.
Description
  1. 316 p. : ill., maps, photos; 31 cm.+
Subject
  1. Calypso (Music) > Trinidad and Tobago > History
  2. Calypso (Music) > Songs and music
  3. Calypso (Music) > Caribbean Area > History
  4. Trinidad and Tobago > Social life and customs
Contents
  1. Calypso and the Trinidad carnival tradition / John H. Cowley.
  2. 1938 sessions. Music, the instruments and the songs in calypsos / Donald R. Hill -- Netty, Netty: newspaper articles on the excursion to Grenada 1937 -- Spanish in Trinidad / Lise Winer -- Who was Butler? / Dick Spottswood -- Doing the Suzie-Q, some popular contemporary dances -- Hideous discoveries and monstrous crimes -- Dance music of the past: the Harmony Kings Orchestra / Denis Malins-Smith -- The censorship of records, 1937 / John H. Cowley -- Calypso, Magic, Religion and Folklore / Donald R. Hill -- Sophia Mattaloney, court cases 1905-1909 -- Buy me a zeppelin / Lise Winer -- The visit of the Normandie -- The Lead-up to war 1935-1939 / Richard A. Noblett -- Haile Selassie, Ras Tafari / Dick Spottswood & Lise Winer -- Decca's Guyanese recordings / Richard A. Noblett -- Murder at Fyzabad -- Recording for the Decca / Dick Spottswood -- Vainglorious appellations / Donald R. Hill & John H. Cowley -- Alien pedlars -- The Musicians / Donald R. Hill & John H. Cowley.
  3. 1939 sessions. Lord Caresser in Guyana / Richard A. Noblett -- Lucky Lindbergh / Lise Winer -- The Lambeth walk / Richard A. Noblett -- Fire losses in Port of Spain -- The Panama Canal / Lise Winer -- Charming Trinidad / Albert Gomes -- The fight of the century: Louis vs Schmeling / Lise Winer -- Big film losses -- The new shop law / John H. Cowley -- Calypso and the Portuguese connection / John H. Cowley, Donald R. Hill & Lise Winer -- Gumbo lai lai "promulgates."
  4. 1940 sessions. Germany invade Poland: war calypsos, 1940 / Richard A. Noblett -- The Muttoo Brothers Orchestra / Richard A. Noblett -- Cavalcade of leggos / John H. Cowley -- An ode to Sir Lennox O'Reilly -- Canboulay, Carnival and calenda / John H. Cowley.
Call number
  1. Sc+ G 11-21
Note
  1. Includes discography, index and bibliography.
Author
  1. Classic Calypso Collective.
Title
  1. West Indian rhythm : Trinidad calypsos on world and local events featuring the censored recordings, 1938-1940 / the Classic Calypso Collective.
Imprint
  1. Germany : Bear Family Records, 2006.
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Added author
  1. Decca Record Company.
ISBN
  1. 9783899162295
  2. 3899162293
Research call number
  1. Sc+ G 11-21
  2. Sc CD-1139 audio discs
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