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« on: November 25, 2009, 06:05:54 AM »
http://www.crawdaddy.com/index.php/2009/11/19/the-day-van-dyke-parks-went-calypso/
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« Reply #1 on: November 25, 2009, 06:34:17 AM »
A great big thank you - you did me a huge favour!
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« Reply #2 on: November 25, 2009, 09:51:50 AM »
The woman who wrote this article is either ignorant about calypso or she's an idiot.  At one point she refers to the "authentic calypsonian Harry Belafonte."  Belafonte was lampooned by authentic calypsonians as a poser.  But that's just for starters.
 
Some of her assertions are infuriating. It's a PC take on calypso, a genre which is notoriously UN-PC.
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« Reply #3 on: November 25, 2009, 10:09:34 AM »
Quote from: PongHit on November 25, 2009, 09:51:50 AM
The woman who wrote this article is either ignorant about calypso or she's an idiot.  At one point she refers to the "authentic calypsonian Harry Belafonte."  Belafonte was lampooned by authentic calypsonians as a poser.  But that's just for starters.
 
Some of her assertions are infuriating. It's a PC take on calypso, a genre which is notoriously UN-PC.


Hm. I haven't read it yet. Thank you.  Undecided
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« Reply #4 on: November 25, 2009, 10:42:41 AM »
Quote from: The Heartical Don on November 25, 2009, 10:09:34 AM
Hm. I haven't read it yet. Thank you.  Undecided

I'll be curious if you or anyone else here has a different take than I do.
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« Reply #5 on: November 26, 2009, 02:34:25 AM »
Another article about Parks' 'calypso-' or Caribbean albums was written and published earlier this year by respected Parks-researcher Dale Carter (who is absolutely not an ignorant idiot - on the contrary!).
"Beyond the Stars and Stripes: Charting Van Dyke Parks' new world musical voyage". This one will not be available online - so to read it you'd have to order a copy of the magazine 'Popular Music', vol. 28/2, 2009.
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« Reply #6 on: December 01, 2009, 03:46:52 AM »
From the couple of tracks I know of, the reissue of ETSB seems well worth getting.

VDP now tweeting http://twitter.com/Van_Dyke__Parks

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