Publication Year: 2000 / Subject Term: Caribbean area and Indo-Caribbean people / Language: English

Start Over Publication Year 2000 Subject Term Caribbean area Subject Term Indo-Caribbean people Language English

Collection:: Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
Format:: Newspaper Article
Publication Date:: 2000-07-22
Published:: Pittsburgh, PA
Location:: African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Journal Title:: New Pittsburgh Courier
Journal Title Details:: 59 : A2
Notes:: Then the charismatic Sundar Popo, who championed "chutney" music, or Indian soca, died of heart failure in May at the age of 57. Sundar Popo is remembered for "Your Mother's Love" and other hits. "People here are very superstitious," said businessman Danny Montano. They conclude "something has swept the country, something is wrong, and that's why so many bad things are happening."

Collection:: Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
Contributers:: Nagamootoo,Moses (Author)
Format:: Book, Whole
Publication Date:: 2000-01-01
Published:: Peepal Tree
Location:: African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Notes:: Though only a small percentage of the quarter million Indians who came to Guyana, the South Indian Madrasis, now much dispersed through emigration to North America, played an influential role in Guyanese life. The Kali-Mai churches they established, for instance, now draw devotees from all Guyanese ethnic groups. At the heart of the narrative are the stories of the entrepreneurial Naga, like pot-salt in everything, his wife Chunoo, resolute in her sense of community and justice, and Hendree, Naga's sidekick, an idler, brilliant drummer and would-be healer. In their lives are played out the polarities which gave Madrasi life its extraordinary dynamism: its spirituality and earthiness, its respect for goodness - and delight in scampishness, its faithfulness to Madrasi culture and openness to the culture of others, particularly the Afro-Guyanese.

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