Meagan Sylvester - Music Sociologist

Meagan Sylvester - Senior Lecturer, Music Sociologist, Author, Researcher. Journalist

Meagan Sylvester is a published author from the Caribbean twin island of Trinidad and Tobago. She is a graduate of the University of the West Indies, St. Augustine and a Caribbean scholar whose doctoral research focused on Narratives of Resistance in Calypso and Ragga Soca music. Her continuing interrogation within the academy centers on Music, Gender, and National Identity in Calypso and Soca, Music of Diasporic Carnivals, Narratives of Resistance in Calypso and Ragga Soca music, Steelpan and Kaiso Jazz musical identities. Teaching and research interests are Caribbean Music Cultures and African Diaspora Popular Culture.