Take Pan to the University

Abstract

This article discusses Ellie Mannette’s objective of taking the creativity of the steelpan from the streets, to the University of the West Indies, St Augustine Campus. Mannette wants to teach the University that it must recognise and learn from original thinking, creation and research. Ellie sought to convince anyone who was listening of the need for Trinidad and Tobago to engage Bertie Marshall and Anthony Williams in research and experimentation to finish the work on pan, which started in the 1930s and 1940s.