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T&T steelpan newspaper history now on the Web

Posted by Pan Times on February 1, 2014 at 10:33am in News

Trinidad and Tobago Guardian

Student research assistant Aniya Teneille Carty with computer screen of clipping. Trinidad & Tobago, W.I. - The history of steelpan as chronicled in Trini­dad newspapers is now only a click away. As a result of a grant from UWI and collaboration between students at UWI and the UWI library, more than 4,000 newspaper articles related to the history of steelpan in T&T will be uploaded to the Web.

Many articles can already be viewed now with more being added in the next several months.

The project is the brainchild of steelpan historian and arranger Dr Jeannine Remy, senior lecturer in the Department of Creative and Festival Arts (DCFA) at UWI, St Augustine.
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  • Andre-Roger Dellevi February 2, 2014 at 12:23pm
    One would think that the Paper Chase to document digitally, for the record, the published history of Steelpan will be helped and not hindered by this effort. The debates will continue, but I agree with the Ghost, that truth will stand up to he test of time and facts need to be sorted to correct distortions. As to the website, I also accessed it before, so the increased traffic might be causing an overload...
  • Cecil hinkson February 1, 2014 at 8:10pm

    I don't know if you can call it a point of reference but we now have somewhere to go to compare notes.

  • BEDE LOPEZ February 1, 2014 at 2:20pm

    I was reading this Article and I click on a link and the results were,   "This page can't be displayed", very frustrating, this is the link,  http://uwispace.sta.uwi.edu/dspace/handle/2139/17577

    • Claude Gonzales > BEDE LOPEZ February 1, 2014 at 2:51pm

      Bede: I visited the site earlier this week and there was no problem; so maybe they are upgrading or debugging. It should be back up soon.

      Food for thought!!! Once the 4000 articles are loaded, any journalist or creative writer or sharp student could sit down in Australia or any other place on earth and access this library along with the pantrinbago.com and  the trinbagopan.com. sites. Not to mention the 1000 other PAN INFO sites on the internet.

      Then they can go to amazon.com and get pan history books written by Angela Smith, Shannon Dudley and Stephen Stuempfle.

      So we could expect a proliferation of books on PAN and PAN HISTORY to flood the market in the next few years.

      MORE CONFUSION!!!

      We bettah stop limin on WST and go in ah back room somewhere and write we own book -- at least we grow up wid de ting.

       

      • BEDE LOPEZ > Claude Gonzales February 1, 2014 at 3:12pm

        Claude, as I had said before, WHAT EVER YOU BELIEVE  accept that belief as the truth. The Trinidad & Tobago Steelpan history will be like the Bible which was written by different Denomination with different interpretation, you will not get the same thing.

  • hollis clifton February 1, 2014 at 10:57am

    Great. I'll look forward to that

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