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ABOVE
: Windward Islands,
circa
1910
LEFT
:
Port-of-Spain Gazette
, 16 February 1915, p. 5
BELOW
: Recorded in 1914, and one of the first commercial
vocal recordings of West Indian creole music, the earliest
performance of this Double Tone Calipso —
Bayonet Charge
By The Laws of Iron Duke
— has been dated to the Trinidad
Carnival of 1900 in Port of Spain.