Hello!

If you happen to be in New York City or nearby, opening today, Aug. 4th,
with a reception at 6pm, Trustees Room, the main Brooklyn Library at Grand
Army Plaza is the traveling exhibit for the Calypso: A World Music.

Brooklyn Public Library Announcement
http://www.brooklynpubliclibrary.org/calypso_music.jsp

This has been a project not to look at the complex history of calypso in
Trinidad but instead to focus on the history of calypso once it became a
world music in the rest of the Caribbean, the United States, Canada, England
and indeed the rest of the world!

The project consists of a traveling exhibit, an online exhibit and a series
of conferences. This exhibit has been curated by Steve Stuempfle, chief
curator of the Historical Museum of Southern Florida and I. The online
exhibit is up at:

http://www.calypsoworld.org

The traveling exhibit after almost two months at the Brooklyn Library will
then travel on to Brooklyn College and in the spring to the Historical
Museum of Southern Florida in downtown Miami.

Traveling exhibition dates:

Brooklyn Public Library - Central Library. 08/04/04 - 09/26/04.
http://www.brooklynpubliclibrary.org/calypso_music.jsp

Brooklyn College Library. 10/04/04 - 12/12/04.

Historical Museum of Southern Florida. 02/24/05 - 06/05/05.

An article by Steve Stuemple on the project is at

http://depthome.brooklyn.cuny.edu/isam/ISAMs04.pdf

The first conference will be on October 30, 2004 at Brooklyn College and
features a concert by reigning calypso monarch Chalkdust

http://depthome.brooklyn.cuny.edu/isam/calypso/calypso.htm

There will be a several day conference at the Historical Museum of Southern
Florida and the University of Miami in March of 2005

http://scholar.library.miami.edu/cls/conference2005.html

Plans are in the works to take the traveling exhibit to other locations and
have additional conferences. There are plans in the works to take the
exhibit and have a conference at the University of Leeds in England during
the fall of 2005 and hopefully arrangements can be made to take the exhibit
to Trinidad during the Carnival season in 2006.


***This message sent to me by Claudia Hill, Avery Art & Architecture
Cataloger, Columbia University Libraries, who attended the opening last
night. :-)

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