Word: calypsos
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...solemn was the occasion last week that even in the birthplace of the steel bands their sonorous sounds were banned from the streets for a night and rollick some calypso singers were allowed to perform only indoors. A new red, white and black flag went up, the Union Jack came down, and Trinidad-Tobago became the eleventh British possession granted independence since World War II. The islands' 825,000 Africans, East Indians, Arabs, Chinese and British began a nine-day independence party designed to top the birth-of-a-nation celebration in nearby Jamaica 26 days earlier...
...Transit for $13.5 million from Corporate Raider Louis Wolfson six years ago, Chalk ordered the line's buses repainted in a green, white and coral design selected by Wife Claire Chalk. The capital's first air-conditioned buses were welcomed with a traffic-tangling parade of bands, calypso dancers and pretty girls. But along with the showmanship went solid business sense. D.C. Transit eliminated most of its streetcar lines, improved services, added express buses. Net income has shot up 97% since Chalk took over-partly because of these improvements, partly because Chalk wheedled Congress into granting exemptions...
Shango Hymn (Geoffrey Holder and his Trinidad Hummingbirds: Washington). Singer-Painter-Dancer Holder and group, to the accompaniment of water glasses and backs of chairs, offer some authentic samples of Caribbean hymns and work songs that may surprise ears accustomed to steel-band calypso. The rhythms are complex, the melodies evocative, the moods haunting and strange...
Died. The Lord Invader (real name: Rupert Westmore Grant), 47. Trinidad-bred Calypso king, a master of ribald improvisation, whose creations included World War II's ubiquitous Rum and Coca-Cola; of complications after surgery; in a Harlem hospital...
...days of street-level anticolonialism. But his bright young organizers quickly saw that Manley's more-stability, more-investment arguments aimed at the middle class produced less vote power than songs, rhythm and sheer noise aimed at the 93% of Jamaicans in the have-not category. A calypso called Freedom Story quickly caught...