00869nam a2200145Ia 450000500170000008000180001710000260003524500800006126000300014130000100017152004940018158300190067594200120069499900170070620260716043202.0  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  cMmM231  c42072d42072