Steelband Memories on May Day: The Band They Could Not Ban

Abstract

The article examines steelband memories on May Day-the celebration day of the working class of the world, and speculate that Karl Marx might have raised an eyebrow to discover that the vanguard of the steelband movement in the Forties was a band called Red Army. Communism was just a word to them, the ideology unfamiliar however, for all their sharp looks, these saga boys were fighters.