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New Soca
BySoyiniTwo soca songs created a bit of buzz this week. The first being from novelty act Uncle Ellis. Uncle Ellis shot to spotlight earlier this year for his now trademark dance, originally performed outside KFC Independence Square by a music cart. Well he’s capitalising on his notoriety, and has released a song for Carnival 2017….
Iwer Parang
BySoyini[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5mWyIlS8VmU?rel=0] I think that this is a first for Iwer. The Bum Bum master has released a soca parang for Christmas 2017. Enjoy!
Merry Christmas Everyone
[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fTQmMt7eqgQ?rel=0] Brand new soca parang for Christmas 2017. This one features many of our soca parang faves and was written by Jason Seecharan, Myron Bruce, Roland Yearwood and Mark Abouhamad.
Call for Papers—“Reckoning With Slavery”
BySoyiniThis is quite an interesting call for papers. I’ll try to monitor it.
The Colour of Shadows
This imaginative book throws new light on the closing years of Caribbean slavery and the lives of enslaved people of African descent before emancipation in Trinidad in 1834. The book centres on the drawings of plantation life by Richard Bridgens, an English-born artist who became a planter and slaveholder in Trinidad, and examines these in […]…
PROF. MERVYN ALLEYNE HAS PASSED AWAY — Repeating Islands
A message from the Department of English at the University of Puerto Rico. We offer the Department at his family our condolences. I (Lisa) want to personally acknowledge my gratitude for his great kindness and warmth, which I valued immensely: Mervyn Coleridge Alleyne (1933-2016) Mervyn was a renowned sociolinguist and dialectologist whose ground-breaking work on […]…