Best of The Beat on Afropop: Rapso From Trinidad and Tobago

<p>This new edition of "Best of The Beat" from volume 12 #2, 1993, accompanies and offers background for a new Afropop podcast, "<a href="https://afropop.test.ejaedesign.com/25986/soundin-like-weself-the-trinidadian-rapso-tradition/" target="_blank">Soundin' Like Weself</a>," produced by Jake Hochberger, on the subject of the Caribbean music genre known as rapso, a close cousin of Jamaica's dub poetry. Rapso is a modern manifestation of the African-Caribbean oral tradition in the same way as dub poetry, but it also evidences the indigenous cultural development of Trinidad/Tobago. It is <em>shango</em>, calypso, pan, and highlights the original spirit of Carnival--resistance and cultural identity.</p> <p>From 1993, we bring you two articles from <em>The Beat</em> magazine, one on the history of rapso: <a href="https://afropop.test.ejaedesign.com/migrated-uploads/2015/10/Beat122rapso.pdf" target="_blank">"Riddim Poetry From Trinidad/Tobago,"</a> by Chako Habekost, and an interview&nbsp; with one of rapso's major proponents, Trinidadian artist Brother Resistance: <a href="https://afropop.test.ejaedesign.com/migrated-uploads/2015/10/Beat122BroResist.pdf" target="_blank">"The Voice of the People"</a> by Ron Sakolsky.</p> <p>Click <a href="https://afropop.test.ejaedesign.com/25986/soundin-like-weself-the-trinidadian-rapso-tradition/" target="_blank">HERE</a> to go to the podcast.</p> <p>Video clip of Brother Resistance's "Cyar Take That."</p> <iframe loading="lazy" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/JtrIYBOAOPU" allowfullscreen="allowfullscreen" height="315" frameborder="0" width="420"></iframe> <p><a href="https://afropop.test.ejaedesign.com/25929/the-beat-goes-on-intro/" target="_blank">ABOUT "BEST OF THE BEAT"</a></p>