Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Trinidad’s Carnival grips the island with an energy unlike anything you’ve ever experienced. From the moment you arrive, you’ll ...
Hip-hop isn't the only cultural movement celebrating its golden anniversary this year; soca, the up-tempo, propulsive descendant of calypso created in Trinidad and embraced across the Caribbean ...
J'Ouvert -- complete with an early morning bash featuring dancing, elaborate costumes, steel band floats and calypso music -- is back in Brooklyn. James Keivom The annual celebration of Caribbean ...
Carnival is often described as spectacle: colour, sound, movement. Yet beneath the masquerade and rhythm, it is also a space where boundaries are challenged, leadership redefined, and possibility ...
Trinidad, British island off the northeast coast of South America, is a hot mixture of bloods, French, Spanish, Negro, Carib, Hindu, Chinese. Once a year, on the two days before Lent, Trinidad goes ...
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The soundtrack of Trinidad and Tobago Carnival, especially where calypso music is concerned, has traditionally been topical, dealing with national or even global issues that have captured people's ...
October 2018 is Calypso History Month, a tradition started by the Trin­ba­go Uni­fied Ca­lyp­so­ni­ans Or­gan­i­sa­tion (TUCO) in 2002 as a way to celebrate the role ca­lyp­so has played in the ...