2005
DOI: 10.1177/1532708605274940
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Masquerade Performance and the Play of Sexual Identity in Calypso

Abstract: This article examines the constitutive nature of Caribbean popular culture, specifically calypso performance, in postnational and postindependence identity formation. It seeks to contribute to research that highlights the importance of the work of the imagination in the active processes of community formations and intervene into standard calypso research and criticism that posits calypso as the voice of the people but identifies the people as a rigid, narrow, and bounded category. The article argues for full e… Show more

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“…Research suggests the importance of Calypso and politics and equates the goals of the Caribbean liberal democratic state with those of the Calypso audience. It is said that the Calypsonian represents the will of the people and music constitutes an organ between the larger audience and the elected government officials (Harewood, 2005). The Calypsonian is the voice of the people, especially that of the marginalized.…”
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“…Research suggests the importance of Calypso and politics and equates the goals of the Caribbean liberal democratic state with those of the Calypso audience. It is said that the Calypsonian represents the will of the people and music constitutes an organ between the larger audience and the elected government officials (Harewood, 2005). The Calypsonian is the voice of the people, especially that of the marginalized.…”
Section: Satirementioning
confidence: 99%
“…Music is a means for those lower in power to have a voice. Harewood (2005) suggests that the Calypsonian takes on the role of the opposition in a democratic system to debate the policies of the party in power. The power of Calypso in relation to party politics in Barbados can be described as a means of expressing participatory democracy (Harewood, 2005).…”
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