The month of October happened to be important for a few cultural traditions celebrated in Trinidad and Tobago, and this seemed to have inspired a popular magazine to produce a culturally rich issue. The contents of the September-October, 2011 issue of Caribbean Beat included seven short features highlighting a few interesting traditions in regional culture.
Caribbean Beat, edited by Judy Raymond is the in-flight magazine of Caribbean Airlines, produced by Media & Editorial Projects Ltd (MEP) of Port of Spain and has consistently carries the occasional article of strength in the arts. It covers a range of popular interests and has always been depended upon to include substantial contributions from time to time in literature, book reviews, music, or folk performance. The latest volume, Number 111, September-October, 2011, is special because of its collection of articles on Caribbean musical traditions, Caribbean film and performance traditions. October is Calypso History Month in Trinidad and Tobago as well as the month in 2011 for three festivals, Ramlila, the Trinidad and Tobago Film Festival which began in September, and Diwali. The magazine’s appeal deepened with its very short but significant accounts of the calypso, the rise of chutney-soca, the folk string bands of Nevis, Ramlila in Trinidad, the film festival and two of its Caribbean features, Ghett’a Life and Fire in Babylon.
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