... ties to the traditional carnival celebration also provide a strong source of continuity for the musical genre along with folk song and African and Indian based classical forms, cross –cultural has so much closeness with calypso music calypso drew upon African and French influences and became the voice of the people. Calypso migrated into English and in so doing it attracted more ... popular in Trinidad and other island. Soca became the most international sales since rap so was not that much sales. Soca has grown since the music incorporate funk ,soul and dance music genres and continu...

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... of place, presents people in all their indigenousness, lyricizes the romantic names of rural towns and rivers, and captures the lilt and flow of the calypso. He creates the vivid dance-like movement and color of masqueraders of the local Carnival, individualizing well-known village characters, reviving the rich and vigorous backyard conversation of East Indian and Negro islanders, and employing ... of the complexities of Selvon's style, however, lies in the fact that this West Indian is of East Indian and Scottish descent; the effective creator of a black London writes without African a...

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