A rose by any other name? How one Trinidad Carnival band’s intimate gesture has sparked controversy

‘I love how people think this is about sex […] and not [about] capitalism’

Originally published on Global Voices

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As Trinidad and Tobago Carnival continues to evolve, this year’s music has been paying homage to veterans of the Carnival arts. Several steelbands have chosen classic tunes as their Panorama pieces as opposed to new soca offerings, soca king Machel Montano’s road march bid, “Encore,” is a nod to mas designer extraordinaire Peter Minshall...