BARBUDA'S FIRST CARIBANA - Antigua & Barbuda

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48 Calypso is defined as a popular musical art form, which is fundamentally a song of a people. It is also a medium of cultural expression and social entertainment. Topical and critical, it comments on life locally, within the wider Caribbean as well as happenings in the international world. Its beginnings go all the way back to Africa. Back then, calysonians were recorders of tribal history and customs, they were commentators, celebrators and satirists. But calypso has also persisted as a medium of expression for the many ethnic groups who, thrown together in a new land, have struggled and fought for political liberty in the face of oppressive conditions in a colonial society, and being drawn together into an integrated community of many racial groupings. A calypso must have a message. The composer must make a plan for writing a calypso in as much the same way as a student does an Mas Music F a n t a s y English composition. After deciding on the topic, he/she begins with an introduction, a body, which carries the message, and a conclusion. A well structured calypso is no different. Calypso pundits and students of the art form have always stated that Calypsonians are singers who write their own songs. The basic ingredients of a good calypso are lyrics, melody, rhythm, tempo, diction and clarity, drama, and wit. Each song tells a story that is a commentary on an aspect of life or event(s) in a humorous, smutty, witty or serious form. Richard Apparicio The greatest exponents of the art form deliver songs with captivating melodies, slow or up tempo, laced with double entendre, innuendo, satire, sarcasm and irony. Prior to 1950, a man by the name of John Quarkoo was the only known name associated with Calypso in Antigua and Barbuda which was called ‘benna.’ This is a term that was used to differentiate secular music from other forms of music. Quarkoo was humorous, fearless and outspoken and would make-up calypsos on
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