MUSIC REPORT
Music plays a very important part in the culture of South Trinidad. In order to present this aspect in the manner it deserves, several students worked on obtaining the necessary research, they are:
- Giselle Kowlessar
- Clarissa Ramgattie
- Diann Ramlackhan
- Annika Boodoo
- Radha Maraj
- Kayleigh Ramesar
- Celine Boodoo
Everyone in this team contributed significantly to what is shown on this page. They all helped to obtain research, edit, type, and conduct interviews.
Three interviews were conducted:
- Khion De Las – Clarissa Ramgattie
- Lyndon Lai Tan – Giselle Kowlessar
- Raquel Winchester – Celine Boodoo
The research was divided among the students.
No problems were experienced in the gathering, processing and presenting of information for this section. The interviewees were very friendly and co-operative and readily gave of their time to answer our questions. All in all, putting forward a web page dealing exclusively with music in South Trinidad proved to be a challenging, fun and very educational task. All the participants thoroughly enjoyed it and, due to our combined efforts, you can now enjoy this page.
Giselle Kowlessar
INTRODUCTION
The music of Trinidad and Tobago includes calypso, soca, parang, pan, chutney. It was influenced by the Europeans, Africans, Indians and oriental settlers that came to the island throughout the years.