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  • The
  • poet
  • and
  • musician
  • Anthony
  • Joseph
  • met
  • and
  • spoke
  • to
  • Lord
  • Kitchener
  • just
  • once,
  • in
  • 1984,
  • when
  • he
  • found
  • the
  • calypso
  • icon
  • standing
  • alone
  • for
  • a
  • moment
  • in
  • the
  • heat
  • of
  • Port
  • of
  • Spain's
  • Queen's
  • Park
  • Savannah,
  • one
  • Carnival
  • Monday
  • afternoon.
  • It
  • was
  • a
  • pivotal
  • meeting
  • in
  • which
  • the
  • great
  • calypsonian,
  • outlined
  • his
  • musical
  • vision,
  • an
  • event
  • which
  • forms
  • a
  • moving
  • epilogue
  • to
  • Kitch,
  • Joseph's
  • unique
  • biography
  • of
  • the
  • Grandmaster. Lord
  • Kitchener
  • (1922
  • -
  • 2000)
  • was
  • one
  • of
  • the
  • most
  • iconic
  • and
  • prolific
  • calypso
  • artists
  • of
  • the
  • 20th
  • century.
  • He
  • was
  • one
  • of
  • calypso's
  • most
  • loved
  • exponents,
  • an
  • always
  • elegantly
  • dressed
  • troubadour
  • with
  • old
  • time
  • male
  • charisma
  • and
  • the
  • ability
  • to
  • tap
  • into
  • the
  • musical
  • and
  • cultural
  • consciousness
  • of
  • the
  • Caribbean
  • experience.
  • Born
  • into
  • colonial
  • Trinidad
  • in
  • 1922,
  • he
  • emerged
  • in
  • the
  • 1950s,
  • at
  • the
  • forefront
  • of
  • multicultural
  • Britain,
  • acting
  • as
  • an
  • intermediary
  • between
  • the
  • growing
  • Caribbean
  • community,
  • the
  • islands
  • they
  • had
  • left
  • behind,
  • and
  • the
  • often
  • hostile
  • conditions
  • of
  • life
  • in
  • post
  • War
  • Britain.
  • In
  • the
  • process
  • Kitch,
  • as
  • he
  • was
  • affectionally
  • called,
  • single
  • handedly
  • popularised
  • the
  • calypso
  • in
  • Britain. Kitch
  • represents
  • the
  • first
  • biographical
  • study
  • of
  • Aldwyn
  • Roberts,
  • according
  • to
  • calypso
  • lore,
  • christened
  • Lord
  • Kitchener,
  • because
  • of
  • his
  • stature
  • and
  • enthusiasm
  • for
  • the
  • art
  • form.
  • Utilising
  • an
  • innovative,
  • polyvocal
  • style
  • which
  • combines
  • life-writing
  • with
  • poetic
  • prose,
  • the
  • narrative
  • alternates
  • between
  • first
  • person
  • anecdotes
  • by
  • Kitchener's
  • fellow
  • calypsonians,
  • musicians,
  • lovers
  • and
  • rivals,
  • and
  • lyrically
  • rich
  • fictionalised
  • passages.
  • By
  • focussing
  • equally
  • on
  • Kitchener's
  • music
  • as
  • on
  • his
  • hitherto
  • undocumented
  • private
  • and
  • political
  • life,
  • Joseph
  • gets
  • to
  • the
  • heart
  • of
  • the
  • man
  • behind
  • the
  • music
  • and
  • the
  • myth,
  • reaching
  • behind
  • the
  • sobriquet,
  • to
  • present
  • a
  • holistic
  • portrait
  • of
  • the
  • calypso icon.
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