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The Semi-Lime:
Remo on the Campus of the University of The West Indies,
St. Augustine.
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The concluding part of the book gives an account of a unique project that brought together an
academic researcher with a popular musician to collaborate in creating a new kind of music.
While doing the research for the book, I had developed a fascination for Caribbean music, and
wondered what possibilities for South-South conversation might emerge in the realm of musical
practice. In April-May 2004, I accompanied the Indian rock-pop star Remo Fernandes and a film
crew to the Caribbean to undertake a series of musical collaborations with Jamaican and
Trinidadian performers. Remo's collaborations with chutney-soca singer and calypsonian, the
East Indian Rikki Jai, and with soca and now chutney singer Denise Belfon (who is of African
descent) proved to be not only hugely productive in musical terms but also in interrogating
further what "Indian" could mean in both Trinidad and India. |
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