History of Pan (82)

As the grandson of the source of Dr. Liverpool's sobriquet ("Chalkdust") and a "founding father" of the PNM, AND as Goddard's son, I know MORE about the "Doc" than MOST! He is MORE than "legend" to me

I understand "Third World" political mindsets of the gullible lumpen, and that some are in this WST space posing as historians. Regardless of what they would like to believe, Dr. Eric Williams did NOTHING that benefitted steelbands! NOTHING!!! And, I

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The "Baddest Desperado" was happy and gay with the term "GAY". When that term can be used, REGARDLESS of its meaning, come back and talk to me about "World Governing Body..."

WHO is the effeminate one, really? To have homosexuals take a title that you once proudly bared, makes you look "less of a man" than any proud member of that community. Is the "steelband world" like the US Armed Forces of yesteryear, whereby "gays" h

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STEEL - Derek Walcott

Steel tells the story, in song and dialogue, of the birth of the steelpan in Trinidad. Set in the depressed Port of Spain district of Laventille after World War II, it is both a love story and a social examination of the urban community that, despite

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