Oral history interview with Cheryl Byron.
- Title
- Oral history interview with Cheryl Byron.
- Published by
- New York : Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, 1985.
- Author
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- Description
- 1 videodisc (57 min.) : sound, color; 4 3/4 in.
- Summary
- Cheryl Byron talks about her upbringing and her performance career. Her early childhood in Trinidad; influence of parents and uncles on performance aspirations; reasons for leaving Trinidad for New York; transition from fine artist to performance artist; experience performing in Lord Shorty's calypso tent in Trinidad, 1976; Trinidadian calypsonians; use of electronic music; lyrical content differences between reggae and calypso music; subjects she writes about; mentors in her life; Pearl Primus; television work; present school work; pieces performed at Hunter College described entitled March On, Blame, Jamaican Journey, Traveling; lack of recordings of her work; message to youth.
- Subject
- Oral histories
- Trinidad and Tobago > Popular culture
- Caribbean Area > Songs and music
- Reggae music
- Trinidad and Tobago > Songs and music
- Popular music > Trinidad and Tobago
- Interviews
- Popular music > Caribbean Area
- Carnival > Trinidad and Tobago
- Byron, Cheryl, 1947-2003 > Interviews
- Primus, Pearl > Influence
- Calypso (Music) > Trinidad and Tobago
- Genre/Form
- Interviews.
- Oral histories.
- Call number
- Sc DVD-2106
- Note
- Interview conducted at the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture on May 23, 1985.
- Biography (note)
- Cheryl Byron is a lyricist, storyteller, performance artist and poet.
- Author
- Byron, Cheryl, 1947-2003, interviewee.
- Title
- Oral history interview with Cheryl Byron.
- Publisher
- New York : Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, 1985.
- Type of content
- two-dimensional moving image
- Type of medium
- video
- Type of carrier
- videodisc
- Digital file characteristics
- video file DVD
- Biography
- Cheryl Byron is a lyricist, storyteller, performance artist and poet.
- Connect to:
- Added author
- Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture.
- Research call number
- Sc DVD-2106
- Sc Visual VRB-353 U-matic