Bennett-Coverly, Louise

Bennett-Coverly, Louise
▪ 2007
“Miss Lou” 
      Jamaican folklorist, poet, and radio and television personality (b. Sept. 7, 1919, Kingston, Jam.—d. July 26, 2006, Toronto, Ont.), was regarded by many as the “mother of Jamaican culture” for her efforts to popularize Jamaican patois and to celebrate the lives of ordinary Jamaicans. From the 1930s Bennett-Coverly wrote and recited dialect poems, and in 1942 she published Dialect Verses, her first poetry collection. After graduating from the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art in London, she hosted the BBC radio shows Caribbean Carnival and West Indian Night. She later taught folklore and drama at the University of the West Indies and served (1959–63) as director of the Jamaican Social Welfare Commission. What was perhaps her best-known book, Jamaica Labrish, a collection of folklore and poetry, appeared in 1966. Among the many albums she recorded were Jamaican Folk Songs (1954) and Children's Jamaican Songs and Games (1957). She delivered highly popular radio monologues, known as Miss Lou's Views, from 1966 to 1982. She also hosted (1970–82) a weekly children's television show, Ring Ding. Bennett-Coverly was made MBE in 1960. She received the Order of Jamaica in 1974 and the Jamaican Order of Merit in 2001.

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