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The History of Carnival

To give you an idea of my connection toSailor" band (Michael Jackson's source of his
Carnival and what I would prefer L.A. or any"Moonwalk") depicting the various sections of
other place to experience, let me begin witha ship; or having to avoid "Lucifer" and his
the fact that when I began playing mass,Entourage From Hell, to name just a few . . .
"Invaders" steel band did not even yet exist;All of whom were to be found not just in a
and when the band eventually came on thefew isolated places on Carnival day, but in
scene, they were known, initially, as "Ovalalmost  every  district  in  the  island.
Boys". You may therefore assume, and
correctly  so,  that I grew up in Wood brook.These traditional portrayals are now shunted,
for the most part, and replaced by
Music of the steel bands - in addition tonondescript fluff and semi-nudity. Our
other LIVE music played by LIVE musicians onCarnival has fallen so low, in my humble,
conventional instruments - used to be thetraditionalistic opinion, that it no longer
backbone, the catalytic driving force in oursurpasses Brazil's but more resembles it,
Carnival. It was a creative, artistichaving fallen almost to the level of Las
pursuit; and pan was synonymous with ourVegas "Schmaltz". Traditional has become
Carnival.almost a dirty word. A word to be ridiculed
by a new generation of players showing no
To play mass used to mean, literally, tointerest in embracing the history of their
portray a character. To tell a story. It wasculture. Instead, they have been satisfied to
our own expressionistic, local theatricality.emulate and imitate "outsiders", either
Theatre of the street. Or as the lateignoring or not realizing the fact that it is
Trinidadian auteur, Dr. Errol Gaston Hill,their own "culture", the very same, which has
termed it: a "Mandate For A Nationalbeen taken, exploited, dumped down, recycled
Theatre". Playing mass used to involveand sold back to them. And they have bought
research. Who or whatever you played, youit.
made a point of learning, studying and
practicing for the portrayal of that entity.As for the music - and I use the term
But most of all, it required some amount ofadvisedly - first of all, FASTER and LOUDER
talent and imagination and a certain desireis not necessarily better. Especially with
to  "entertain"  the  spectators.that sort of (synthesized) music that doesn't
"breathe"!! . . I never thought I would see
But in the early 1970s a "cultural sell-out"the day when pan would lose its place in our
of "The World's Most Spectacular Festival"Carnival and we would be subjected to the
(as our Carnival used to officially beAmerican Square Dance fashion of "crowd
called) began to prevail - for monetary gaincontrol"- - When some guy, some person of no
- and the integrity of our Carnival has sinceconsequence whatsoever, and most likely from
then been progressively and shamefullyanother island, would be telling me when to
compromised."Lay down on the ground' and wine". Or, to
"Hold on to the big truck." or to wave my
No longer do we face the challenge of fendinghand in the air! Such utter nonsense. This is
off the threats of "Midnight Robbers", orby no means the Carnival atmosphere that I
witnessing the hypnotic realism of a familyhave known and loved. Or as a journalist from
of "Bats", or enjoying - which has always"The Trinidadian Guardian" succinctly summed
been my personal choice to play - theit up a couple of years ago, "Rhythmic
fanciful movements and dancing of a "Fancyrhetoric for dictation dancing.



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