Guardian June 2, 2019
"Ram said T&T was one of the most creative places in the world, it’s Carnival and music were world-renowned, and was an area the country needed to consider how to capitalise on and export."
Dr. Ram adds to the "we so talented chant" -- but WHERE IS THE MUSIC?
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Barry Gordy being employed at a Ford factory was inspired listening to the beat of the machinery, wrote MUSIC that helped CREATE the Motown SOUND. I’m reminded of Kitchener story.
The Road He Made To Walk
Kitchener
By Vaneisa Baksh
Aldwyn Roberts was that, and from early childhood I believe. Why? This son of blacksmith Stephen and housewife Albertha, growing up in Arima in the 1920s, was hearing music in everything around him, and finding ways to tell the stories of those sounds. He abstracted the rhythm of the blacksmith, the tunefulness of his whistling; the harmony his mother created between her broom’s swishing and her own humming; he inhaled the music of rustling leaves, clinking bottles and clattering pans, and it seemed to him that life was a melody waiting to be played out. He had fallen under the spell of a proprietary muse. Music.
The Story Of Stax Records
Booker T & MGs - When Something Is Wrong With My Baby
Caziq 4+
Caribbean Riddim Media Archive Limited
https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/caziq/id1208221082?mt=8
Framework for a Caribbean Music Industry