Calypso Education

Calypso music, whats that?, It's kinda like Reggae right? Questions of this nature have made me realize the importance of ehthnomusicialigy, and role of the narrator. This video serves as a catalyst for awareness much to what I work to achieve on some simpler level. This topical issue has issued an higher awareness of the choices I have made in the past, and also present and their role within my notion of my portrayal of the musical form calypso, and the Afro-Caribbean culture. This has lead me to conduct an three part personal study/survey of how I as an narrator interpret the pillars of the nature of calypso, and Afro-Caribbeans culture. Each survey will document different aspects of the narration process; the personal process of preforming, or creating calypsos so as to adhere to as much traditional aspects as possible, The second is education/diffusion of the Afro-Caribbean culture (music, lyrics, culture)to a group of three individual followed by a live performance, compared and contrasted with the findings from the first survey. The third being Sans Ritual Project an analysis similar to the next one, but contains 12 musician's from five different ethnic backgrounds, musical experiences, applies concepts of myth and culture. I hope to conclude from these to reflexively prove how we are just as much as humans prone to the same faults, and the act of subjectively judging/narrating foreign notions (music, language, race, etc)is from personal experience, and there fore there is no circumstance one truly valid narrator to be found in any culture through the world.