ABSTRACT
Calypso music, steelpan bands and carnival celebrations played important roles in interpreting the events and activism of the Black Power era, such as the writings of V.S. Naipaul, Earl Lovelace or the calypsos of The Mighty Sparrow, Chalkdust, and David Rudder in Trinidad and Tobago. Earl Lovelace’s fiction, A Brief Conversion, The Dragon Can’t Dance, Salt, and Just a Movie complimented and commented on the local and personal nuances of the larger political and social debates on Black Power in the Caribbean.
