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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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Status | Vol/Date | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
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Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schomburg Center to submit a request in person. | Disc 1 | Moving image | By appointment only | Sc Visual DVD-1438 Disc 1 | Schomburg Center - Moving Image & Recorded Sound |
Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schomburg Center to submit a request in person. | Disc 2 | Moving image | By appointment only | Sc Visual DVD-1438 Disc 2 | Schomburg Center - Moving Image & Recorded Sound |
Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schomburg Center to submit a request in person. | Disc 3 | Moving image | By appointment only | Sc Visual DVD-1438 Disc 3 | Schomburg Center - Moving Image & Recorded Sound |
Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schomburg Center to submit a request in person. | Disc 4 | Moving image | By appointment only | Sc Visual DVD-1438 Disc 4 | Schomburg Center - Moving Image & Recorded Sound |
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- 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