Sam Manning was one of the earliest calypsonians who achieved international… Read Full Bio ↴Sam Manning was one of the earliest calypsonians who achieved international acclaim. He was born around 1899 in Trinidad and died in 1960 while traveling in Africa.
Manning served in the British West Indies Regiment in France and the Middle East during World War I. In the early 1920s, he moved to New York, where he recorded music that combined jazz and calypso rhythms. His song "Lieutenant Julian" commemorated the 1929 transatlantic flight by Trinidadian Hubert Fauntleroy Julian. In 1934, he moved to England, where he gave performances in London.
His companion was Amy Ashwood Garvey, Marcus Garvey's first wife. She produced Brown Sugar, a jazz musical production at the Lafayette Theatre, which featured Manning and Fats Waller and his band. She and Manning opened the Florence Mills Social Club in London's Carnaby Street, which quickly became a gathering spot for the city's black intellectuals.
Manning returned to New York in 1941. That same year, he produced the only known calypso "soundies". film clips made for film jukeboxes located in restaurants and bars. They featured Manning and his ensemble, and Trinidadian dance legend Beryl McBurnie. In 1947, Manning wrote and directed Caribbean Carnival, a Broadway show produced by Adolph Thenstead, which was billed as the "First Calypso Musical Ever Presented". It was a lavish production, featuring 50 singers and dancers, among them New York-based calypsonian, the Duke of Iron, Trinidadian dancer, Pearl Primus, and Manning himself. Manning and Thenstead also founded a record company, Cyclone.
Manning served in the British West Indies Regiment in France and the Middle East during World War I. In the early 1920s, he moved to New York, where he recorded music that combined jazz and calypso rhythms. His song "Lieutenant Julian" commemorated the 1929 transatlantic flight by Trinidadian Hubert Fauntleroy Julian. In 1934, he moved to England, where he gave performances in London.
His companion was Amy Ashwood Garvey, Marcus Garvey's first wife. She produced Brown Sugar, a jazz musical production at the Lafayette Theatre, which featured Manning and Fats Waller and his band. She and Manning opened the Florence Mills Social Club in London's Carnaby Street, which quickly became a gathering spot for the city's black intellectuals.
Manning returned to New York in 1941. That same year, he produced the only known calypso "soundies". film clips made for film jukeboxes located in restaurants and bars. They featured Manning and his ensemble, and Trinidadian dance legend Beryl McBurnie. In 1947, Manning wrote and directed Caribbean Carnival, a Broadway show produced by Adolph Thenstead, which was billed as the "First Calypso Musical Ever Presented". It was a lavish production, featuring 50 singers and dancers, among them New York-based calypsonian, the Duke of Iron, Trinidadian dancer, Pearl Primus, and Manning himself. Manning and Thenstead also founded a record company, Cyclone.
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tezzo55
@Mac Ton Good man, I knew you'd be back, ego is such a strong addiction, and thanks for the enjoyable convo. Now, here's another way of putting this to you my buddy: only a funking idiot wouldn't realise that they were a funking idiot.
We're all just funking idiots, with the ones that don't realise they are funking idiots, being the biggest funking idiots of all.
As Willy said, only a fool would think themselves wise. The wise are wise because they know their own folly.
And that's what Dunning and Kruger discovered, idiots think themselves really smart, but really smart folk know they are idiots.
So let's be honest here my friend, you do kinda want us to know how clever you are, and how un-cleaver is everyone else, and this kind of ideation does put you on the wrong side of the Dunning Kruger, William Shakespeare equation.
Obviously I'm not saying you're a funking idiot same as the rest of us, because you have to be wise enough to come to this conclusion yourself. Best, Good fun :-)
Lance Tschirhart
@Independent Man I see. This time, you'll get the article. I'm sorry this post got so long. I did try to keep it brief.
A crucial point about our argument: Maybe you will refute my claim that criminal record does not account for the disparities in arrests, time sentenced, time served etc., I'll appreciate you teaching me something -- but it will do very little to contest the broader and more important point that in the judicial system there are unjust disparities based on race. Obviously, I haven't suggested that every single aspect of the judicial system is racist.
I backed up my claim with an analysis of over two million datapoints of sentences, controlled for criminal record, which you have to access through your current or prior university.
Below, you quoted this professor and implied that her claim that racial injustice in the judicial system is definite and apparent gives you reason to doubt her education and/or intelligence.
Since the prior paper is harder to access, I'm just going to give you a paper you can access immediately which describes egregious racial disparities elsewhere in the system, which are statistically significant with a p value of <.001: If you murder a white person, you are at least 17 times more likely to be executed than if you murder a black person, with the variables of criminal record and brutality of the crime accounted for.
You'll see in the paper why the minimum of "17 times" is implausibly low.
The article looks really long at first glance, but it looks that way largely because it contains more than 300 citations, many with footnotes.
The paper Whom the State Kills by Scott Phillips & Justin Marceau is freely available. Please, do read it if you think the topic is important.
Tom Cotter
@Egill Skallagrímsson
"Like I said, because biased people often behave like that. Why? Because one prerequisite of bias is that you don't check the truthfulness of your opinion/view/perception."
There is the relevant portion of your comment.
You claim: "[B]ias people often behave like "that" (undefined) [b]ecause one prerequisite of bias is that you don't check the truthfulness of your opinion/view/perception."
Did you check the clarity of your writing? Let me ask again, since you don't seem to be following your own argument:
What is the that that biased people behave like? You said biased people behave like "that" because... But you never defined the behavior you're referring to when you say "behave like that."
Maybe an example will help:
If I say, "Dogs behave like that because their brains are smaller than human brains." What do the dogs behave like? Can you answer the question based on the information I've provided?
Once you understand your error and clarify your point, then please tell me how I engaged in "that" behavior, whatever it may be.
Tom Cotter
@Egill Skallagrímsson
"I said it looks like bias, because that's how biased people behave. Statement and explanation."
How do biased people behave, it's not clear from your "explanation."
What you're calling "explanation" is actually just another assertion. You did not provide any examples of how biased people behave, evidence that your examples are an accurate characterization of biased behavior, or reasoning to link my behavior to your definition of biased behavior.
So again, I dismiss you on the grounds that you did not provide an argument for me to engage with.
Andrew Murphy
I value this man so much and his books helped me change my life for the better.
Aaron Drumm
@Nick Chilson damn. I'm not even sure why I'm responding. That's awful.
james harris
@Nick Chilson I am sorry to here that, but have you considered that the burden and the grief that u suffer MAKES it so that she doesn't have to suffer.... What if u died first and she had to go through what u r going through.... At the very least it gives yr pain meaning.
james harris
How so, if u don't mind me asking...
Iain Bloor - Dealing with PTSD
Sam harris has ginger pubic hair
Iain Bloor - Dealing with PTSD
Trump 2024,,,
You bunch of snowflakes need ta understand dis
Gabriel Fox
I see Sam Harris as pursuing rigorous intellectual honesty. Whether or not he is completely right about everything, I believe he works for intellectual honesty.
isaac harvard
I love this man more everytime i hear him speak, what a wonderful human being. Keep it up Sam!!
Nate Eaton
Sam Harris's view of how social media affects us as a nation is something every American should hear. Thank you, Sam and Laura of the CCC, for a good and timely discussion.
Nate Eaton
@Sunny La Thanks. I saw it. I recommend it, too.