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Oscar Pile Speaks (1998)
Description
An account of the resource
This collection is comprised of recordings of Oscar Pile (the founding member of the <a href="http://www.casablancasteelorchestra.com/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Casablanca Steel Orchestra</a>).
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<a href="http://www.davidvtrotman.com/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Professor David V. Trotman</a>
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<a href="http://www.audradiptee.com/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Dr. Audra A. Diptee</a>
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<a href="http://historywatchproject.com/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">The History Watch Project</a>
Oral History
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Interviewer
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<a href="http://www.davidvtrotman.com/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Professor David V. Trotman</a>
Interviewee
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Oscar Pile (1922-2008) was the founding captain of the <a href="http://www.casablancasteelorchestra.com/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Casablanca Steel Orchestra</a> and a pioneer in the steelband movement. This recording was made in 1998 during a conversation between <a href="http://www.davidvtrotman.com/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Dr. David V. Trotman</a> and Oscar Pile.
Location
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Trinidad and Tobago
Transcription
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"Casablanca had – in the area of Casablanca – with the family concerns, there were the young people there going to college and high schools, and they were involved in [steel] pan playing. And I being the [band] captain, have a direction or a directive to these young people. When is [band] practice time and they has test, I don’t want to see them in the band. They must stay home and do their work. So the community respect me for such – as a leader and guider."
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Oscar Pile Speaks: Bringing up the next generation.
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<a href="http://www.audradiptee.com/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Dr. Audra A. Diptee</a>
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<a href="http://historywatchproject.com/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">The History Watch Project</a>
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Oscar Pile Speaks (1998)
Description
An account of the resource
This collection is comprised of recordings of Oscar Pile (the founding member of the <a href="http://www.casablancasteelorchestra.com/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Casablanca Steel Orchestra</a>).
Contributor
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<a href="http://www.davidvtrotman.com/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Professor David V. Trotman</a>
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<a href="http://www.audradiptee.com/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Dr. Audra A. Diptee</a>
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<a href="http://historywatchproject.com/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">The History Watch Project</a>
Oral History
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Interviewer
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<a href="http://www.davidvtrotman.com/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Professor David V. Trotman</a>
Interviewee
The person(s) being interviewed.
Oscar Pile (1922-2008) was the founding captain of the <a href="http://www.casablancasteelorchestra.com/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Casablanca Steel Orchestra</a> and a pioneer in the steelband movement. This recording was made during a conversation between Professor David V. Trotman and Oscar Pile circa 2000.
Location
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Trinidad & Tobago
Duration
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1 minute 59 seconds
Transcription
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<p>"The history of the steelband in its early days - you find that a man by the name of Manning [Eustace Henry] who used to live in St. James [Trinidad], he left here and he belongs to St. Lucia [or] Antigua [somewhere] around there.<span> </span>He left here with a pan and eventually when he went there - they knows nothing about steelpan - he opened a band.<span> </span>And you find Antiguans - by he doing this Manning … and Henry -<span> </span>they got two steelbands over there in the earlies [named] Hell’s Gate and Brute Force.</p>
<p>I left Trinidad and went to Tobago and when I went there I opened the steelband there [called] Paramount in Delaford Tobago.<span> </span>I met a guy who from Trinidad - left Trinidad - and was living up there by the name of Cecil Baptiste - I believe he is dead now.<span> </span></p>
<p>Whilst I was in Tobago, I met Viking the calypsonian.<span> </span>He helped the band they call « Our Boys » today.</p>
<p>Also Rannie [Randolph] Babb - yes, [the] retired police officer - he was in Tobago and he also assist[ed] another band and open[ed] another band who knows nothing about [steel]pan - and so steelpan start in Tobago.</p>
<p>Our tuner Randolph Simmons « Croppy » was such a favourite that sometimes you [would] have to look for him.<span> </span>And when we get up in these places like Tunapuna [or] Arima, we find him up in some hole tuning pan for some guys - so he spread the gospel too.<span> </span></p>
<p>Due to the various steelband clashes and thing and forming the steelband organization as such mehself, myself, Sidney Gallup, Natty [Nathaniel] Crichlow, and [the] same Lennox Oscar Pierre.<span> </span>We had to go all part of the country with Carlisle Kerr - that time we used to travel by train - and by going to these various places you would hear a pan knocking in a yard.<span> </span>And when we go in that yard, you will see one fellar playing a pan. We encourage him and they would get a group and form a steelband. So this is how it spread."</p>
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Oscar Pile Speaks: The Spread of Steelband
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<a href="http://www.audradiptee.com/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Dr. Audra A. Diptee</a>
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<a href="http://historywatchproject.com/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">The History Watch Project</a>
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Oscar Pile Speaks (1998)
Description
An account of the resource
This collection is comprised of recordings of Oscar Pile (the founding member of the <a href="http://www.casablancasteelorchestra.com/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Casablanca Steel Orchestra</a>).
Contributor
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<a href="http://www.davidvtrotman.com/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Professor David V. Trotman</a>
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<a href="http://www.audradiptee.com/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Dr. Audra A. Diptee</a>
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<a href="http://historywatchproject.com/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">The History Watch Project</a>
Oral History
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Interviewer
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<a href="http://www.davidvtrotman.com/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Professor David V. Trotman</a>
Interviewee
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Oscar Pile (1922-2008) was the founding captain of the <a href="http://www.casablancasteelorchestra.com/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Casablanca Steel Orchestra</a> and a pioneer in the steelband movement. This recording was made during a conversation between Professor David V. Trotman and Oscar Pile circa 2000.
Location
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Trinidad & Tobago
Duration
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45 seconds
Transcription
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"Well what we are speaking about here - the era we speaking about here – the majority of the [steel] pan man from the early days was unemployed. And they eager for this new invention. [It] was something that everybody – the guys in the ghetto craved, and [as] fast as one invented something on the [steel] pan or played a new tune on the pan, he couldn’t wait for carnival or any festivities. So, the guys now, unemployed as I said, have no sense of direction. We just played music, and we happy, and that’s it."
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Oscar Pile Speaks: Explains why young men were involved in the steelpan.
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<a href="http://www.audradiptee.com/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Dr. Audra A. Diptee</a>
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<a href="http://historywatchproject.com/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">The History Watch Project</a>
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Oscar Pile Speaks (1998)
Description
An account of the resource
This collection is comprised of recordings of Oscar Pile (the founding member of the <a href="http://www.casablancasteelorchestra.com/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Casablanca Steel Orchestra</a>).
Contributor
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<a href="http://www.davidvtrotman.com/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Professor David V. Trotman</a>
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<a href="http://www.audradiptee.com/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Dr. Audra A. Diptee</a>
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<a href="http://historywatchproject.com/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">The History Watch Project</a>
Oral History
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Interviewer
The person(s) performing the interview.
<a href="http://www.davidvtrotman.com/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Professor David V. Trotman</a>
Interviewee
The person(s) being interviewed.
Oscar Pile (1922-2008) was the founding captain of the <a href="http://www.casablancasteelorchestra.com/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Casablanca Steel Orchestra</a> and a pioneer in the steelband movement. This recording was made during a conversation between Professor David V. Trotman and Oscar Pile circa 2000.
Location
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Trinidad and Tobago
Duration
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1 minute 18 seconds
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Oscar Pile Speaks: Steelband and Shango
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<a href="http://www.audradiptee.com/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Dr. Audra A. Diptee</a>
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<a href="http://historywatchproject.com/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">The History Watch Project</a>