“We Getting the Kaiso That We Deserve”: Calypso and the World Music Market

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September 01 1998 “We Getting the Kaiso That We Deserve”: Calypso and the World Music Market Gordon Rohlehr Gordon Rohlehr Professor of West Indian Literature at the University of the West Indies, Trinidad. Born in Guyana, he is author of Pathfinder: Black Awakening in the Arrivants of Edward Kamau Brathwaite (Gordon Rohlehr, 1981); Calypso and Society in Pre-Independence Trinidad (Gordon Rohlehr, 1990); My Strangled City and Other Essays (Longman Trinidad, 1992); and The Shape of That Hurt and Other Essays (Longman Trinidad, 1992). He is also coeditor of Voiceprint: An Anthology of Oral and Related Poetry from the Caribbean (Longman, 1989) Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Scholar Author and Article Information Gordon Rohlehr Professor of West Indian Literature at the University of the West Indies, Trinidad. Born in Guyana, he is author of Pathfinder: Black Awakening in the Arrivants of Edward Kamau Brathwaite (Gordon Rohlehr, 1981); Calypso and Society in Pre-Independence Trinidad (Gordon Rohlehr, 1990); My Strangled City and Other Essays (Longman Trinidad, 1992); and The Shape of That Hurt and Other Essays (Longman Trinidad, 1992). He is also coeditor of Voiceprint: An Anthology of Oral and Related Poetry from the Caribbean (Longman, 1989) Online Issn: 1531-4715 Print Issn: 1054-2043 © 1998 New York University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology1998 TDR/The Drama Review (1998) 42 (3 (159)): 82–95. https://doi.org/10.1162/105420498760308481 Cite Icon Cite Permissions Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Search Site Citation Gordon Rohlehr; “We Getting the Kaiso That We Deserve”: Calypso and the World Music Market. TDR/The Drama Review 1998; 42: 3 (159), 82–95. doi: https://doi.org/10.1162/105420498760308481 Download citation file: Ris (Zotero) Reference Manager EasyBib Bookends Mendeley Papers EndNote RefWorks BibTex toolbar search Search Dropdown Menu toolbar search search input Search input auto suggest filter your search All ContentAll JournalsTDR/The Drama Review Search Advanced Search This content is only available as a PDF. © 1998 New York University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology1998 Article PDF first page preview Close Modal You do not currently have access to this content.

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