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080			_a05.05.03 M231
100			_aMaison Bishop, Carole
245			_aGender and musical performance : the female calypso singer in the Caribbean
260			_bWAND _aSt. MichaelBB _c1995
300			_a13 p.
520			_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.
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942			_cM _mM231
999			_c18737 _d18737