That was the question posed at the Barbados Museum and Historical Society, Garrison, St Michael, yesterday as the museum and the National Cultural Foundation (NCF) officially launched BIM@60, a national campaign inviting Barbadians at home and in the diaspora to help choose the 60 songs that best capture six decades of Independence.
A panel, working with the museum and the NCF, has already curated a list of more than 200 culturally significant Barbadian songs spanning genres from spouge and calypso to reggae, ragga soca, hip-hop, ring bang and tuk. From that list, the public will vote online to select a final Top 60: Sixty Songs For Sixty Years, once the project’s website goes live.
