Phillips, Everard M.

The political calypso : a sociolinguistic process of conflict transformation / Everard M. Phillips. - Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago : Personal Power Unlimited, 2009. - iv, 121 p. : ill. ; 22 cm.

Calypso lyrics by David Rudder, Cro Cro, Shadow, Amuser and Mystic Prowler included in appendix.

Includes bibliographic references (p. 101-109).

The political calypso in a theatre of emancipation -- Form and function in calypso -- The application of form -- Co-authorship through call and response -- Mechanisms of call and response -- Stage drama and social status.

9789768223289 9768223286

2009458600


Calypso (Music)--History and criticism.--Trinidad and Tobago
Calypso (Music)--Social aspects--Trinidad and Tobago.
Ethnomusicology--Trinidad and Tobago.
Sociolinguistics--Trinidad and Tobago.


Trinidad and Tobago--Social life and customs.

ML3565 / .P558p 2009

781.64