Description:

The result of years of research, this book graphically traces the history of both the Calypso and Soca Monarch finals. For the first time in our history of staging these competitions, researchers, students and lovers of these art forms can find in one place a complete listing of the finalists, their songs, the places they secured in the finals, and in the case of the calypso finalists, the tents to which each calypsonian was affiliated through the years. To this date the preoccupation has been with the winner, casting away the others who have also made worthy contributions; "The Finalists" corrects that.