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Felix I. R. Blake, The Trinidad and Tobago Steel Pan. History and Evolution. ISBN 0-9525528-0-9; Stephen Stuempfle, The Steelband Movement: The Forging of a National Art in Trinidad and Tobago, Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1995; Cy Grant, Ring of Steel: Pan Sound and Symbol, Macmillan Caribbean, 1999, ISBN 978-0333661284
In 1992, the steelpan was declared Trinidad and Tobago’s national instrument by Prime Minister Patrick Manning. [1] This helped turn the steelpan into a source of national pride and cultural identity, recognized both locally and internationally. [1] In 2023, the United Nations General Assembly declared August 11 as World Steelpan Day.
A desert is a landscape where little precipitation occurs and, consequently, living conditions create unique biomes and ecosystems. The lack of vegetation exposes the ...
Salt pan at Lake Karum in Ethiopia. Natural salt pans or salt flats are flat expanses of ground covered with salt and other minerals, usually shining white under the sun.They are found in deserts and are natural formations (unlike salt evaporation ponds, which are artificial).
Williams was a pioneer of the steel pan, along with Winston "Spree" Simon, Ellie Mannette and Neville Jules. Williams was part of the Trinidad All Steel Percussion Orchestra, TASPO, which visited England for the Festival of Britain in 1951. [2] In 1953, Williams presented a soprano pan with the notes laid out in a circle of fifths. Because the ...
Steelpan. Stick fighting and African percussion music were banned in 1881, in response to the Canboulay Riots. They were replaced by bamboo "Bamboo-Tamboo" sticks beaten together, which were themselves banned in turn. In 1937 they reappeared, transformed as an orchestra of frying pans, dustbin lids and oil drums.
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Lying southeast of the Okavango Delta and surrounded by the Kalahari Desert, Makgadikgadi is technically not a single pan, but many pans with sandy desert in between, the largest being the Sua (Sowa), Ntwetwe and Nxai Pans. The largest individual pan is about 1,900 sq mi (4,921.0 km 2).