...Elizabeth McAlister Juxtaposing two audiospheres (the Haitian streets after the 2010 earthquake and the “Hope for Haiti Now” telethon), this essay brings together scholarship on the visuality of suffering with work on music and emotion in order to explore the links between singing and knowledge...

... of race and poetics in contemporaneous Kingston print culture (and other intertexts, from Paul Laurence Dunbar's “When Malindy Sings” to Erving Goffman's “The Lecture”), this essay links the thematic concerns of “Fresh from de Lecture” with its medium: McKay, it argues, uses the principle of accident...

...Samantha A. Noel This essay interrogates the jamette's influence in the movements of contemporary women masqueraders. The jamette is important since she tapped into the potential of corporeal expression once colonial authorities felt it unfit for women to sing the popular kalinda songs of the late...

...Jennifer Rahim Small Axe Incorporated 2002 Songster Jennifer Rahim iss Ivy say she hear a singing trail through the church, sounding just like when Michael use to raise a few songs after the fishing done, and he by himself in Queen Penny bailing water...

... the gift of singing en clave or “having clave” ( tener clave ), which, based on “a certain fetishism of rhythm,” is regarded in the salsa lore as a sociomusical gift. 9 On the one hand, musically it invokes “the potential to assume the internal rhythmic codes” of the music. 10 On the other...

..., dressed in their scarlet tunics and gleaming white shirts, as they headed past Sergeant. That day he decided to wait until he saw her approaching before starting to sing, so she would know that his performance was especially for her. Atop the column, his sun-lightened dreadlocks glowed in deep...

... and exasperation. Sometimes when hundreds of people “take up the sing” on his plantations, they join voices in what he calls one of their most “popular” songs: “Take Him to the Gulley.” 11 After recording the chorus, Lewis tells the story of the crime that was Bedward’s procedure and prerogative, down...

... in poetry, dance, and singing, the “true, true” calypsonians—to use a local expression—are expected not only to produce their own material but also to be judged on their own merits as solo artists in calypso competitions. Inspired by the musics that they have listened to since the 1990s...

..., the bolero conveys the soul through the full embodiment of the act of singing. Cabrera Infante's description prefigures what French theorist Roland Barthes calls the “grain” of the voice: “The ‘grain,’” writes Barthes, “is the body in the voice as it sings, the hand as it writes, the limb as it performs...

... of their new lives. “Singing Ramayana” they called these nights of singing, when women would get together to listen (298). SX21 • October 2006 • Brinda Mehta | 33 The woman-centered tradition of “Singing Ramayana” translates a certain longing...

... me the cur drag the seas seven miles seven deep days weeks for ius sing a song...

... Toussaint and the blacks. A second, more subtle masking disrupts the sense of safety in the initial bourgeois image of Madame Bullet singing and playing at the living room piano alongside Marie-Jeanne. The stage directions indicate a musical conflict: “ Marie-Jeanne is humming, sometimes singing...

... song in the midst of poems. “Calypso” begins and ends in singing, while “Caliban” incorporates rueful chants of “And / Ban / Ban / Cal- / iban / like to play / pan / at the Car- / nival” and “ limbo // limbo / limbo like me .” 8 Where Brathwaite’s explanation in History of the Voice...

... loved us all. So, we went to church, and even though I begged Jesus Christ to make Gran cover her face with her winter scarf when singing hymns like “Th ey’ll Know We Are Chris- tians by Our Love my Lord showed me no such vain mercies. I remember going over excuses...

... • Hilda Lloréns | 77 had been indignantly singing while he accompanied us in the line. He was indignant because he knew New York all too well. He had led a life there he did not want my mother to live. He even recorded a music album there. Now his melodic voice accompanied us in line. When our...

... witnessed this kind of enclosure during Bad Bunny’s performance at the Sixty-Fifth Annual Grammy Awards in 2023. 6 “Ethnonationalism feels so good.” These are the words I mouthed to my friends as we finished dancing, singing, throwing up signs to the (Afro–)Puerto Rican poetics being sung on the main...

... curse, the echolalia of incomprehension the singeing realization, like moth-dust fallen from frenetic wings. Death settles us, settles us all in the damp dark earth under the shovel's heave and thrump, like sudden fruit unripely fallen. There we lie, in the earth's unsated womb, unknowing...

..., addressing the Singer in his internal monologue, points readers to how the temporal conflict inheres in the very song structures of international roots reggae and dancehall: “Boy like me don’t sing your song. He who feels it knows it, you say, but it’s long time since you feel it. We listen to other song...

... is the author of Derek Walcott: Memory as Vision (1978), Derek Walcott (2006), Frank Collymore: A Biography (2009), and a collection of poems, It Was the Singing (2000). He is the editor of Critics on Caribbean Literature (1978) and Derek Walcott's Selected Poems (2007), and coeditor, with Colbert...

... newswire story noted that calypsonians from Trinidad in residence at “Manhattan's smartest night clubs” were still “singing sprightly ballads to rhumba-like rhythms about the visit of the King and Queen” to North America six months earlier, and it approvingly cited a sample stanza: The charming...