Title: My Time
Performers: Space Coast Steel
Culture: Trinidad
Instrumentation: Steel Band

This week's readings talks about strategies for "creating world music" .  THe strategy I find the most accessible to me is re-creating or arranging popular calypsos from Trinidad. This arrangement is of the Calypso My Time, by the Calypsonian Calypso Rose.  I wrote it for my students seen in this video.  My experience has taught me tht if your can re-create the music of your target culture as authentically as possible, then the students will develop a deeper understanding and respect for the music and the culture.  I hope you enjoy the music as much as we had playing it and I had writing it.