The focus of this paper is the class, color, and race components in the struggle to create a people’s music — a music originally and essentially of the economically disadvantaged and less formally educated citizens of Trinidad and Tobago, primarily tho
In 1953 the British invaded Guyana and nullified Jagan’s electoral mandate. Interred at a local base for three months, Carter captured Guyana’s political trauma in his poem, “This Is the Dark Time My Love.” He lamented: “It is the season of oppression, dark metal, and tears. It ...