00787nam a2200109Ia 4500080001800000100002600018245008000044260003000124300001000154520049400164583001900658  a05.05.03 M231  aMaison Bishop, Carole  aGender and musical performance : the female calypso singer in the Caribbean  bWANDaSt. MichaelBBc1995  a13 p.  aLooks at the central role women played as performers in the formative years of the calypso i.e. in the early part of the 19th century and records their near disapperarnce from the genre by the end of that century.  Discusses how the content of the calypso has 'mirrored' gender relations in the society and examines the motivations underlying the decision of current women calypsonians to enter an occupation that had become so male-identified and their experience in the calypso industry.  c3/7/00kM2LMGR