Browsing by Author "Grant, Lennox"

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    Get Ready, Boogsie...with Courthouse Clothes: Mayor Lee Sing Sues to get Phase II Out of One Woodbrook Place
    (Express, 12-Jun-11) Grant, Lennox; The University of the West Indies, St Augustine Campus, Trinidad and Tobago
    In the latest outbreak of a two-decade-old war of attrition, the Port of Spain City Council has sought a court order for the removal of the Phase II Pan Groove Steelband from the Woodbrook site it has occupied since 1972.
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    It's A Race to Catch the Panman's Ear
    (Sunday Express, 15-Feb-76) Grant, Lennox; The University of the West Indies, St Augustine Campus, Trinidad and Tobago
    This article examines the relationship between the calypsonian-composer and pan. Every calypsonian-composer wants his song to be the one that everyone is singing, hence it is the interest of calypsonians to cultivate panmen. The importance of the Road March, a certain kind of song that celebrates the glory and wonder of Carnival and the excitement of Carnival music is discussed. The panmen who are the ones that determine the Road March.
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    Where Pan Reach: At Last, We Know
    (Express, 8-Sep-96) Grant, Lennox; The University of the West Indies, St Augustine Campus, Trinidad and Tobago
    Lennox Grant comments on the articles written by two veteran panmen, Nestor Sullivan and Ian Teddy Belgrave which offered a commemoration and a bitter sweet lament on the nation's steelpan. Grant noted that the Independence weekend was a sombre update on the status, on a world scale, of the national instrument. The steelpan which is a promising multi-billion dollar industry, is now the property of Europe, Asia or North America.