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Let No Man Judge: Remembering the Calypsonian and Containing Risk
Document Type
Article
Abstract
When calypsonian Merchant died of HIV-related causes in 1999, his life and death became a conduit for the public discussion of HIV/AIDS in Trinidad and Tobago. Merchant was remembered simultaneously as a womanizing, working-class calypsonian and as a closeted gay man. These public narratives, like narratives of other individuals associated with disease or epidemics, used music to allocate risk to marginalized groups and, by implication, away from much of the general Trinidadian public.
Repository Citation
Lewis, David R., "Let No Man Judge: Remembering the Calypsonian and Containing Risk" (2022). University Libraries Faculty Publications. 70.
https://scholarworks.bgsu.edu/ul_pub/70
Publication Date
Spring 2022
Publication Title
Ethnomusicology
DOI
https://doi.org/10.5406/21567417.66.1.08
Volume
66
Issue
1
Start Page No.
138
End Page No.
156