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SpotlightCalypso King of Kings- a mixed bag
Ian JacksonNov. 1, 2018Whatever you call it, hard luck or inadequate preparation, the King of Kings Calypso extravaganza was a mixed bag as a show advertised for 9 pm started in earnest after ...
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SpotlightCountdown to Forty Years of Political Independence
Ian JacksonNov. 1, 2018Dominica is in full gear towards the observance of political independence after hundreds heeded the annual call by the Ministry of Culture through the Chief Cultural Officer to raise flags ...
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SpotlightLove, Death and Poetry
Ian JacksonOct. 30, 2018(Memories of former US Army Sgt. Julius Carl St. Rose)
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SpotlightThe Making of the World Creole Music Festival
Ian JacksonOct. 16, 2018A high level team of innovators and initial movers and shakers of the World Creole Music Festival (WCMF) who 20 years ago came up and executed what many thought would ...
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SpotlightFor the survival of Calypso
Ian JacksonOct. 11, 2018It is well known by now that Dominica is now the last port of call, the last bastion and hope for the survival of Calypso as we presently know it. ...
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SpotlightTreat Them Right
Ian JacksonSept. 26, 2018An art form like Calypso can be so effective in conveying messages and influence change that I am moved this week to publish the composition below to highlight the plight ...
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SpotlightGood Male Vocalists Required
Ian JacksonSept. 13, 2018A music producer here brought the paucity of good male vocalist on island to my attention. I understood where he was coming from but I responded: 'Not really' because his ...
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SpotlightArtistes, music sampling without permission is wrong
Ian JacksonSept. 13, 2018Intellectual property attorney Richard Stim states the following as it pertains to music sampling in recordings: "Like all artistes, musicians sometimes like to borrow from one another. The complication, however, ...
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SpotlightPretending Reality
Ian JacksonSept. 6, 2018Soon after I submitted my last article to this newspaper I received a call from Gloria Septra Augustus informing me that she was staging a new production with her company ...
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SpotlightV.S. Naipaul departs
Ian JacksonSept. 6, 2018When a writer passes as did Derek Walcott a couple years ago, and as V.S. Naipaul did on August 11th at the age of 85, their lives continue through their ...
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SpotlightFrom Slave Ship to Championship?
Ian JacksonAug. 20, 2018What a wonderful title to one of the nation's most powerful Calypsos written and performed by calypsonian The Liberator addressing Caribbean people in the Eighties. Yes, last week we all ...
