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Derek Walcott & West Indian Drama

'Not Only a Playwright but a Company' the Trinidad Theatre Workshop 1959-1993.
Bruce King
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Paperback - 432 pages Reprint edition (November 1997)
Clarendon Pr; ISBN: 0198184646 ; Dimensions (in inches): 1.05 x 8.51 x 5.47
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Songs from Trinidad

Edric Ed. Connor
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Paperback (June 1958)
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Music of Hindu Trinidad

Songs from the India Diaspora (Chicago Studies in Ethnomusicology)
Helen Myers
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Hardcover - 480 pages Book & Cd edition (October 1998)
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Like many other small towns in Trinidad, Felicity is populated almost entirely by East Indians. In their Caribbean exile, the residents of Felicity have created and recreated the music of their Hindu ancestors. Music of Hindu Trinidad is a fascinating account of the history and cultural significance of Hindu music that explores its symbolic, aesthetic, and psychological aspects while asking the larger question of how this music has contributed to the formation of identity in the midst of their great diaspora.
Myers details the musical repertory of Felicity, which is based largely on north Indian genres including the traditional Bhojpuri folk songs and drumming styles brought by the first indentured laborers in 1845. In her engaging exploration of the fate of Indian classical music and new popular styles such as Hindi calypso, soca, and chutney, she even finds herself at the ancestral home of Trinidadian V. S. Naipaul in India. Copiously illustrated and accompanied by a compact disk, Music of Hindu Trinidad is a model ethnographic study.

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Trinidad and Tobago

Scott B. MacDonald
"The particular distinction of this book is that it covers the entire sweep of modern Trinidadian politics to the death in 1981 of the nation's first prime minister, Eric Williams, the ascension of his successor, George Chambers, and Chambers's subsequent difficulties in stemming the nation's growing political and economic problems. The chapters on the growing rot in the People's National Movement (PNM); the weakening of political authority; the trend to autocratic rule; and the rise of new forces of opposition, compellingly chart the PNM's weakening grip on political power.... Highly recommended for undergraduates specializing in the politics of the English-speaking Caribbean."
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Hardcover (March 1986)
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A Question of Labour

Indentured Immigration into Trinidad and British Guiana 1875-1917
K. O. Lawrence, K. O. Laurence
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Hardcover (May 1994)
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Marchin' the Pilgrims Home

Stephen D. Glazier
"Glazier's study of Spiritual Baptists on Trinidad is welcome. He accounts for religous vitality and innovation in terms of leaders' decision-making. He argues that ritual syncretism takes an unusual form among Spiritual Baptists; that solidarity is achieved despite a lack of consensus or ritual uniformity; that leaders' activities as entrepreneurs and as interpreters of experience, not as charismatic figures shape the church; that the church/sect/cult typology simply does not apply to Caribbean religion. ... Appropriate for libraries serving upper-division undergraduates and graduate students."
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Hardcover (December 1983)
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The Trinidad Awakening

Reinhard W. Sander
West Indian Literature of the Nineteen-Thirties (Contributions in Afro-American and African Studies, No 114)
"Sander (Hampshire College) author of From Trinidad (1978), presents a definitive, thoroughly researched, gracefully expressed study of literary activity in Trinidad in the 1930s, and its literary/cultural implications for West Indian literature in general. . . . In Caribbean literary studies, Sander's work is pioneering in its drawing of successful links between cultural productions and historical realities. The book's organization is clear and logical; its accessibility enhanced by a well-documented index. It also contains a useful bibliography divided into primary, general, and background sources. Given Sander's historical approach, particularly the impact of British colonialism, this book will also be valuable to scholars of postcoloninal Asian and African literatures. College and university libraries."
REINHARD W. SANDER is Associate Professor of Comparative Literature at Hampshire College and the Five College Consortium in Amherst, Massachusetts. Our Price: $49.95
Hardcover (September 1988)
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Republic of Trinidad and Tobago

Consolidated Index of Statutes and Subsidiary Legislation to 1st January, 1988
C. J. Hammett
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Paperback (June 1986)
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