Research Catalog

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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Details

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

• Calypso (Music)
• Women singers
• Lady Complainer (Calypso singer)
• United States
• Interviews
• Calypso (Music) > Trinidad and Tobago > Trinidad
• Trinidad and Tobago > Trinidad
• Lady Complainer (Calypso singer) > Interviews
• Filmed interviews
• Calypso musicians
• McLane, Daisann > Interviews
• Women singers > United States > Interviews

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