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This important biography of Antigua's greatest calypsonian is also an in-depth study of the culture and socio-political history of Antigua and Barbuda, as well as the wider Caribbean. The traditional 'Caribbean song' and its creators are treated with dignity and deep appreciation. The result is an essential and long overdue addition to the study of calypso.

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Publié par	Hansib Publications
Date de parution	01 mars 2014
Nombre de lectures	0
EAN13	9781910553176
Langue	English

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KING SHORT SHIRT
Nobody Go Run Me

The Life and Times of Sir MacLean Emanuel
Dorbrene E. O Marde
First published in 2014 by Hansib Publications Limited
P.O. Box 226, Hertford, Hertfordshire, SG14 3WY United Kingdom
www.hansibpublications.com
Copyright Dorbrene E. O Marde, 2013 Neither the publisher nor the author claim any rights to the song lyrics reproduced within this work
Cover photograph by Nigel Scotland/Visual Echoes
ISBN 978-1-906190-71-2 eISBN 978-1-910553-17-6
All rights reserved. Without limiting the rights under copyright reserved above, no part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in or introduced into a retrieval system, or transmitted, in any form or by any means (electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording or otherwise), without the prior written permission of both the copyright owner and the publisher of this book.
A CIP catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library
Printed in Great Britain
DEDICATIONS
I dedicate this work to the calypso lovers of my time:
My wife Ingrid and our three children - Kaloma, Kayode and Khari who were on the calypso stage before their teenage years;
Men who know how calypso go: Barry Scorpion Edwards, King Lord Have Mercy Franki, Colin Bone Cumberbatch, Anthony Mamba Liverpool;
The members of the King Short Shirt 50th Anniversary Committee: Valerie Harris-Pole (Chair), Bernard Percival (Treasurer), Patricia Tully, Moti Persaud, Diandra Emanuel, Jerome Bleau;
Three radio personalities who keep the music in our ears: Algernon Serpent Watts of Observer Radio, Dave Lester Payne of ABS Radio and Collie Governor Slim Joseph of ZDK Radio;
One of Antigua and Barbuda s finest intellectuals: William Nathaniel Shelly Tobitt.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Dorbrene E. O Marde is a recognised cultural worker throughout the Caribbean region. He is best known as a playwright, director and producer (theatre and music), columnist, speaker/panellist and calypso aficionado.
His work with calypso music dates back to the 1970s as writer, analyst and regional judge and workshop presenter. He has created both lyrics and melodies for many of the leading calypsonians in Antigua and Barbuda - Scorpion, Stumpy, Slane, Richie Francis, Douglas, Chalice, De Bear, Singing Vickie, Byke, Progress, Queen Althea, Sleepy, Cauliflower and Lyricksman.
Dorbrene s involvement in the art form includes:
Author and presenter of the twenty one-hour radio programmes series Talking Calypso
Host of the TV programme Calypso Talk in 2012 and 2013
Edited and produced an annual calypso magazine Calypso Talk (1984-2001)
Judged national calypso competitions in Antigua and Barbuda, Barbados, Montserrat, Anguilla and St Kitts Nevis
Judged regional calypso competitions - King of the World in Barbados, Youth Calypso Competition in Trinidad and Tobago and the OECS Soca Monarch in St Lucia
Conducted calypso judging workshops in Antigua and Barbuda, St Lucia, St Kitts Nevis, the Commonwealth of Dominica, Montserrat and Anguilla
Participated in radio commentaries on national calypso competitions in Antigua and Barbuda and St Vincent the Grenadines
Participated as feature speaker or panellist in calypso and Carnival symposia in UWI/Trinidad and Tobago, Barbados, Dominica and Antigua and Barbuda
Author of many articles and media competition reviews
In 2010, Dorbrene O Marde was awarded the Sunshine Friends of the Arts Award for his commitment to creativity development and his consistent calls through pen or voice for the crafting of implementable cultural policies and the inclusion of cultural frameworks in development strategies.
His first novel, Send Out You Hand was published by Hansib Publications in 2012 to enthusiastic review and acclaim.

The members of the King Short Shirt 50th Anniversary Committee (l-r): Bernard Percival (Treasurer), Diandra Emanuel, Dorbrene O Marde, Valerie Harris-Pole (Chair), MacLean King Short Shirt Emanuel, Patricia Tully, Jerome Bleau and Moti Persaud
Night and day ah catching hell People think ah doing well Just because ah sing a few calypso But that is my misery / Calypso don t make money But most of them don t know That I have my axe to grind / just like any other man Existing in poverty / on this giant ghetto land But I intend to hang on Tell them - tell them for me
Chorus
No dice / I ain t going to eat lice I ain t going to grow old / sitting in the cold / not me No way - they go have to beat me They go have to eat me / or they heads go roll Tell them I say I was born in this land / I go die in this land Nobody go run me / from where me come from Nobody go run me - Lord Nobody go run me Nobody go run me / Nobody go run me Me mooma must nyam Me poopa must nyam Me woman must nyam Me picknee must nyam Nobody go run me Nobody go run me Nobody go run me - Lord Nobody go run me
Ghetto Vibes (1976) Nobody Go Run Me
MacLean Emanuel Shelly Tobitt
I want now to move to the politics of art, since there is a determined effort to make us believe that politics diminishes art, when art, in fact, is politics by other means. Politics is the means by which we regulate our relations, (economic, religious, legal and social relations) one with another, in society. It is the way we see the world and our place in it. Art is the effort to interpret the world and to make people see how their place in it is being either endangered or enhanced. All art either seeks to accommodate us to the world as it is, or to move us to change the world as it is, for the better. Therefore then, is all art, politics by other means. Those then who seek to take politics out of art are, in truth, taking art out of art.
Tim Hector The Art of Carnival and the Carnival of Art; Fan the Flame Outlet newspaper, 28 July 2000
CONTENTS
Foreword
Introduction
1. The early social and calypso influences
2. The calypso roots
3. The calypso stem 1965-1970
4. Still growing
5. The stem and the branches
6. Lament, oh my soul
7. The road march
8. Ghetto Vibes
9. The illusion 1977/1978
10. Revolution and divorce
11. Summer Festival
12. King again - for the last time!
13. The Christian years
14. Nothing wrong with the music
15. Fifty years of calypso
16. Seventy/Fifty
Appendix 1: Antigua Calypso Kings and their songs
Appendix 2: Road March (1970 - Present)
Appendix 3: Short Shirt s Discography
Appendix 4: Short Shirt s Competition Renditions
Appendix 5: King Short Shirt s Top 100 Songs of All Time on Radio ZDK
Appendix 6: Past Steel Pan Winners
Appendix 7: Top 100 Songs by Jamaican and international reggae artistes
Index
FOREWORD
This is not pure biography . I examine the life of Sir MacLean (MacLean Leroy Emanuel), King Short Shirt but this is essentially an analysis of a man and his collaborators, the music they made in the Antigua and Barbuda society and the regional and international reaction to that music. It is a history of the Antigua calypso, featuring Short Shirt.
Hopefully this study furthers the debate about the role of the artiste in society. Is s/he and his/her work simply reflective of the values in society or is s/he one of the exceptional individuals who through artistic processes shape society, determine behaviour and relationships? There is of course, the third alternative - that suggests that although it is through the artistes that cultural practices are analysed and expressed, the relationship between them and society may be dialectical - society and artiste influencing each other. C.L.R. James in The Artist in the Caribbean confirms the third alternative when he posited that, a supreme artist exercises an influence on the national consciousness which is incalculable. He is created by it but he himself illuminates and amplifies it, bringing past up to date and charting the future.
The approach taken here to music research and social analysis is also influenced by the thoughts of music professor Thomas Turino who suggests in his Music as Social Life: The politics of participation that, any general theories about artistic processes and expressive cultural practices would do well to begin with a conception of the self and individual identity because it is in living breathing individuals that culture and music meaning ultimately reside . He conceptualises self as comprising a body plus the total sets of habits specific to an individual that develop through the ongoing interchanges of that individual with his/her physical and social surroundings. Identity involves the partial selection of habits and attributes used to represent oneself to oneself and to others by oneself and others... culture is defined here as the habits of thought and practice that are shared among individuals.
In this study, attempts are made to examine the interchanges between Short Shirt, his writers and his musical arrangers and the society and their impact on the socio-political actions and arts and culture of Antigua and Barbuda and the rest of the Caribbean.
Thanks are made to those who assisted in compiling this information. Extensive interviews were conducted with King Short Shirt himself, his main writers Marcus Christopher, Shelly Tobitt and Stanley Humpreys. Conversations were held with Jerome Bleau, Colin Bone Cumberbatch, King Frank-I, Valerie Harris-Pole, Cecil Wattie Watkins and a number of calypsonians including Ogliver Jacobs (Mighty Destroyer), Paul Richards (King Obstinate) and Barry Edwards (Scorpion). Television programmes with hosts Brucella Marsh and Alex Nicholas, guests Chaku Symester, Anthony Mamba Liverpool, Alister Thomas, D. Gisele Isaacs provided insights. Emails were exchanged with music arranger Frankie McIntosh.
Special thanks go to two Antigua and Barbuda scholars for historical fact and interpretation of the political highlights of the late nineteen sixties and seventies - Dr Paget Henry in his Peripheral Capitalism and Underdevelopment in Antigua and Sir Keithlyn Smith in his No Easy Push-o-ve