MIGHTY GABBY

• FOLK

• CALYPSO

EARLY BEGINNINGS WITH CALYPSO

• REDIFFUSION

• EARLY INFLUENCES – YOUNG BRIGADE -

MIGHTY SPARROW, LORD MELODY, LORD

KITCHENER, MIGHTY SPOILER (ROHLEHR

332).

• LATER INFLUENCES – DUKE, BLACK STALIN,

DAVID RUDDER, GYPSY, ALL ROUNDER

(CARTER).

EDDY GRANT

• PRODUCER AND SINGER

• GRANT WAS A SIGNIFICANT

INFLUENCE ON GABBY.

GABBY ON EDDY’S INFLUENCE

CULTURE

• CULTURE IS ARRANGED IN THE STYLE OF THE YOUNG BRIGADE CALYPSO SOUND.

• TEXTURE - BIG BAND AND RHYTHM SECTION.

• MELODY – MAJOR AND DISCURSIVE WITH CLEAR VERSE AND CHORUS SECTIONS

• HARMONY – TONAL AND ADHERES TO MELODY.

• RHYTHM – MEDIUM SLOW TEMPO, “CULTURE” USES THE STANDARDISED CALYPSO RHYTHM (WITH

VARIATION).

JACK

• MELODY – MUSEMATIC, COMPARATIVELY MORE REPETITIVE THAN CULTURE. VERSE CONSISTS OF ONE

MELODIC MOTIF.

• HARMONY - UTILISES TWO CHORDS IN THE VERSE AND THE THREE FUNDAMENTAL CHORDS IN THE

CHORUS.

• TEXTURE – A DIMINISHED USE OF HORNS WITHIN THE BAND CHORUS ESPECIALLY IN COMPARISON WITH

CULTURE.

• RHYTHM – A QUICKER TEMPO IS SEEN. MORE ATTACKS WITHIN THE MELODY ALSO PRESENT.

GABBY ON JACK

WUK UP (RECORDED) TOWARDS A RHYTHM CENTRED APPROACH

• TEXTURE – SYNTHESISED DRUMS AND SYNTH LEAD. ABSENT OF ACOUSTIC INSTRUMENTS.

• MELODY – MELODY OSCILLATES BETWEEN DISCURSIVE AND MUSEMATIC.

• HARMONY – HARMONIC INSTRUMENTS ARE LARGELY ABSENT. ONLY HARMONIC CHANGES IN THE VERSES

IS THE I-V MOVEMENT CHORD.

• RHYTHM – GABBY’S MELODIC ATTACK IS AGAIN DENSE. THE RHYTHMIC ACCOMPANIMENT IS BASED ON

THE RING BANG BEAT OF THE EARLY-MID 90S.

GABBY’S FORM OF SONIC RESISTANCE

• RHYTHMIC EMPHASIS

• RHYTHM AS A WAY TO PRACTICE AN AFRO-BARBADIAN FORM OF IDENTITY.

WORKS CITED

• CARTER, ANTHONY. PERSONAL INTERVIEW. 1 MARCH 2013

• ROHLEHR, GORDON. A SCUFFLING OF ISLANDS : ESSAYS ON CALYPSO. SAN JUAN, TRINIDAD AND TOBAGO,

LEXICON TRINIDAD LTD, 1994.