Black Slain Kaisonian - Softcover

Traces, in the circumstances of Stalin s upbringing, the genesis of the abiding themes of his career-long Calypso. His abiding love for the expressive culture of the urban Afro Trinidadian underclass is also rooted in Stalin s experience of growing up in San Fernando where Calypso, Steelband and mas' were dominant artistic cultural expressions -examines the career of the veteran calypso composer/performer of Trinidad and Tobago. Stalin entered the calypso gayelle in 1959 and has been active there since then. The book traces the socio-economic circumstances of his upbringing and the genesis of the abiding themes of his career-long Calypso