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An interview with Daisann McLane

Title
An interview with Daisann McLane/ Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture ; interview conducted by James Briggs Murray.
Author
McLane, Daisann
Publication
New York : Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, 1986.

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Disc 1Moving imageBy appointment only Sc Visual DVD-1438 Disc 1Schomburg Center - Moving Image & Recorded Sound
Disc 2Moving imageBy appointment only Sc Visual DVD-1438 Disc 2Schomburg Center - Moving Image & Recorded Sound
Disc 3Moving imageBy appointment only Sc Visual DVD-1438 Disc 3Schomburg Center - Moving Image & Recorded Sound
Disc 4Moving imageBy appointment only Sc Visual DVD-1438 Disc 4Schomburg Center - Moving Image & Recorded Sound

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Additional Authors
  • Murray, James Briggs
  • Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture.
Description
4 videodiscs (141 min.) : sound, color; 4 3/4 in.
Summary
Daisann McLane discusses how she became interested in music and became a Calypso singer. Childhood in Queens, N.Y. and New Jersey and early involvement with music at home; music in school and high school political involvements; experience attending Princeton University; work as DJ and music director at Princeton radio station; post graduate exposure to music - Reggae and Calypso; early performance career (non-Calypso), Greenwich Village; work as staff writer for Rolling Stone Magazine; exposure to Caribbean music through friend. Move toward Calypso music; first visit to carnival in Trinidad, 1981; friendship with Ralston Charles at "Charlies" in Brooklyn and association with Calypso musicians there; carnival in Trinidad, 1982, 1984; experiences meeting Calypsonians Valentino, Black Stalin; work with Shadow in Brooklyn, N.Y.; how she was invited to perform at Rainbow Terrace, Brooklyn; interest in writing own songs, how "Love me for Only Me" was written; performance in Trinidad during 1985 carnival. Why she didn't perform in Trinidad 1986; plans for 1987; present work as producer; comments about Calypso singers: Sparrow, Kitchener, Chalk Dust, Explainer, Calypso Rose, Lord Funny, Pretender, Blue Boy, Shadow, Crazy, David Rudder, Arrow. Message to young people.
Subjects
Genre/Form
  • Interviews.
  • Nonfiction films.
Terms of Use (note)
  • Permission required to cite, quote and reproduce. Contact repository for information.
Biography (note)
  • Daisann McLane performs as a Calypso singer under the name Lady Complainer and writes about Caribbean and Latin music and culture for publications including Rolling Stone and Vogue Magazine and the New York Times.
Call Number
Sc Visual DVD-1438
OCLC
26842368
Author
McLane, Daisann, interviewee.
Title
An interview with Daisann McLane/ Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture ; interview conducted by James Briggs Murray.
Publisher
New York : Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, 1986.
Country of Producing Entity
United States.
Type of Content
two-dimensional moving image
Type of Medium
video
Type of Carrier
videodisc
Digital File Characteristics
video file DVD
Event
Recorded June 12, 1986. Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, New York.
Terms Of Use
Permission required to cite, quote and reproduce. Contact repository for information.
Biography
Daisann McLane performs as a Calypso singer under the name Lady Complainer and writes about Caribbean and Latin music and culture for publications including Rolling Stone and Vogue Magazine and the New York Times.
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Added Author
Murray, James Briggs, interviewer.
Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture.
Research Call Number
Sc Visual DVD-1438
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