Selwyn Cudjoe is a Trinidadian academic, scholar, historian, essayist and editor who is Professor of Africana Studies at Wellesley College. He was also the Margaret E. Deffenbaugh and LeRoy T. Carlson Professor in Comparative Literature and the Marion Butler McClean Professor in the History of Ideas at Wellesley. Wikipedia
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Lord have mercy, RUSSELL PROVIDENCE!!! What kinda BACCHANAL yuh come and start here on THIS FORUM THIS MORNING. All the bright yuh bright yuh doh know that this is an AFRO-CENTRIC, PAN-CENTRIC, PNM-CENTRIC FORUM.
But since BEVERLEY made NOVEMBER a PANORAMA MONTH and tie up meh head, leh meh use some of your content to beat one ah meh dead horses.
"Having unfortunately lost much of his heritage to the onslaught of the European, the Afro-Trinidadian's greatest aspiration is to play the European's Classics and be recognised for it. The greatest credits to PAN comes from the Eurocentric and the American experience; and PAN became acceptable to the upper class when steelbands began to play Beethoven. The PAN is definitely a percussion instrument. It is an attempt to formulate notes of the Temperate scale. It cannot play the subtle srutis so basic, essential to Indian music."
And this is MY GRIPE with the PANORAMA ARRANGEMENTS as these arrangers (worse now with DUVONE STEWART who is about to win THREE PANORAMAS in a row using that formula -- and other men are copying him even in the SINGLE PAN) as they arbitrarily dump all this EUROCENTRIC IRRELEVANCE right in the middle of my SWEET CALYPSO killing MY BUZZ!!!
Lord, Russell Providence -- what kinda trouble yuh gone and get me in THIS EARLY MORNING!!!
And why yuh always PICKING on MARCUS ASH and AQUIL ARRINDELL?
This article Revisiting -- THE REAL MOCKING PRETENDERS demonstrates to me the infinite potential of Marcus Ash as an educator, and defines his capacity as an administrator and a leader. and the infinite selfishness of Selwyn Cudjoe who in his quest for acceptance, spewed sewage, and told lies at a man's funeral.
I hope that Marcus Ash can be given the space to grow in Pan Trinbago, and that he uses his ability to write more scholarly articles like the one in the link attached. I hope that he can tell his president face to face that she ascended to office on a wave of lack of transparency, the root cause of all the corruption that Diaz and Forteau orchestrated, and the perception of her transparency can only be measured by her willingness to present audited financial reports for public scrutiny in a timely manner.
Clearly Dr Cudjoe never read Sat's view on Pan in Hindu schools...
Now read carefully what Marcus Ash the sitting education officer of Pan Trinbago wrote ( THE REAL MOCKING PRETENDERS Posted by Marcus Ash on May 30, 2012 at... ) before ascending to office.
Now read this release, SANATAN DHARMA MAHA SABHA Music In Schools
and try to put into context why this discussion is relevant to this forum.
HISTORIAN and academic Prof Selwyn Cudjoe has likened the late Sanatan Dharma Maha Sabha (SDMS) general secretary Satnarayan Maharaj to US civil rights leader Dr Martin Luther King Jr.
He was speaking at the funeral for Maharaj at the SDMS Headquarters, Lakshmi Girls' Hindu College, Eastern Main Road, on Tuesday. Maharaj died on November 16 after being hospitalised after a stroke. He was 88.
Cudjoe said some people had compared Maharaj to Indian anti-colonial nationalist Mahatma Gandhi, but he preferred to compare him to King, "whose major contribution was to make the US a more perfect union."
https://newsday.co.tt/2019/11/19/cudjoe-sat-was-like-martin-luther-...