Pan Politics

An interesting article about the Pan Trinbago Carnival boycott in the Newsday.

Pan Trinbago’s threatened boycott of Carnival 2005, if carried out, may be counter-productive, as was the mid 1970s pan boycott of the Parade of Bands at the Queen’s Park Savannah. An unexpected spin-off of that boycott was that most of the Carnival bandleaders turned, increasingly, to brass bands and disc jockeys to provide music for their mas players. [..]What Pan Trinbago needs to do, instead of issuing boycott threats, is seek to develop strategies which would result, in the first instance, in the core players of the leading steelbands contracted for engagements the year round, in much the same way that many musicians in brass bands are in regular demand.

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