Music Trinidad And Tobago
US Department Of State Post Report
The calypso, the musical genre that has drawn international attention to Trinidad, evolved from folk culture but is considered a popular political music form. Today's calypso has been described as “witty, smutty, topical, and full of double entendre.” Stimulated by the commercialization of the music and the hotly contested annual competition for Carnival calypso monarch, composers turn out some 40 or 50 “hit” songs each year. Soca, a high-energy dance music, Indo-Trinidadian “chutney” music, Indian style “tassa” drum bands, and the limbo dance are also all of Trinidadian origin. ... [Read More]
IEW Events > The Americas
The Washington, D.C.-based music ensemble "Hesperus" completed a three-city tour of Bolivia with a performance to commemorate IEW. The event was co-sponsored by the Bolivian Alumni Association and included former international visitors and Fulbrighters - some current officials and elected representatives in the government - as invited guests of honor. The group performed lively American colonial and folk music pieces that required 30 different instruments. The La Paz performance also served as a platform for the recently re-organized Fulbright Alumni Association to publicly recognize their members and contributions to the country. This three-city performing arts program was organized and funded by the embassy. ... [Read More]
US Department Of State Post Report
Special Needs EducationLast Updated: 8/31/2002 6:00 PM Quality educational programs for students with moderate to severe learning disabilities are non-existent. Higher Education OpportunitiesLast Updated: 3/31/2004 12:08 AM Few opportunities for advanced study or adult education exist in Georgetown, other than those offered by the University of Guyana. Foreign language instruction in Spanish and Portuguese is offered to the public by the Venezuelan and Brazilian embassies. Language instruction in German is also available. A few music teachers instruct beginning and intermediate st ... [Read More]
Events and Activites, International Education Week 2001
On November 13, former Fulbrighters Jose Azcona and Ricardo Alvarezm and current U.S. Fulbright Lecturer Dr. Michael Owen will appear on Televicentro's TVC morning news show with host Edgardo Melgar to promote "IEW." On November 15, the Orquesta Sinfónica Nacional de Honduras (OSNH), with U.S. Fulbright Scholar Sergio Buslje as guest conductor, will perform at the Teatro Nacional Manuel Bonilla program, which will feature music by American composers to commemorate IEW. ... [Read More]
IEW Events > United States
The week opens with a kick-off in the College Center including greetings from the college president and several international students in their home languages, and a music presentation provided by Del Sur Music. There will be a one-hour program of world music daily by the campus radio station. The cafeteria will serve international cuisine during the week, including dishes from Mexico, Italy, India and China. The Transfer Department will host a combined college recruitment and study abroad fair. The Triton College Student Association will sponsor an international film festival. Several faculty have opened their classes to visitors from foreign consulates in Chicago. The Undergraduate Center will present their undergraduate study travel opportunities. The Foreign Languages Department will host activities to promote the study of foreign languages and the Phi Theta Kappa honor society w ... [Read More]
US Department Of State Post Report
The Philharmonic Orchestra has a regular concert season. Additionally, there is an active and excellent youth orchestra, with several other ones around the country that nurture provincial talent and send their best students to Caracas for membership in the national youth orchestra. Choral music is popular, with many groups each devoted to a particular choral specialty (baroque, modern, etc.). Popular music, such as jazz and rock, is well-liked in Venezuela and well-known entertainers come to Caracas. Salsa and merengue remain the most popular music and dances among Venezuelans. However, other music, such as “llanero music,” typical of a certain region of Venezuela, is also popular. ... [Read More]
2004–2005 Fulbright Awards – Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs
Musical Instrument Training ... Ethnomusicology ... Eastman School of Music ... [Read More]
Introduction to Intellectual Property Rights: Support for Economic and Political Freedom
Laws for the protection of intellectual property are notstatic but change in concert with changes in technology andsociety. In Book 2, chapter III of The Wealth of Nations, AdamSmith stated that the labor of persons we now call “performers”is “like that of menial servants, unproductive of any value, anddoes not fix or realize itself any permanent subject, or vendiblecommodity, which endures after that labour is past, and for whichan equal quantity of labour could afterwards be procured.” Heconcluded that, “like the declamation of the actor, the harangueof the orator, or the tune of the musician, the work of all ofthem perishes in the very instant of its production.” In 1776 itwas not possible, of course, to fix a performance in a tangiblemedium. Today, a multimillion dollar worldwide industry has beenbuilt around the fixation of performances in videos, cassettetapes, and compact disks. ... [Read More]
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