Talk:Soca music

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These are my definition of Soca and Calypso

Soca - Soul Calypso( the soul of our African ancestors mixed with the social commentaries of our situation in the Caribbean}. Calypso - Political or social commentary told in a song.

CP.

Eddy Grant made an album called 'Soca Baptist' and claimed in the sleevenotes to have invented the genre. Can anyone explain this to me? Mighty Sparrow is calypso in my book.

NT

There is a recursive defination used. Chutney is based on Soca and Soca is based on Chutney, that does not make sense.

Chirags 23:42, 2 January 2006 (UTC)

Recursive, but true.  :) Guettarda 02:58, 3 January 2006 (UTC)

Soca is not soul and calypso. That fact should be corrected.

The article explicitly agrees with you. What would you like corrected? Tuf-Kat 08:12, 13 January 2006 (UTC)

[edit] soca

Soca is NOT derived from chutney. Soca is based upon the African roots of calypso and kaiso. Chutney is an Indianized version of soca that followed soca - they are two separate things. Soca is African. The campaign to try to minimize or eliminate the African influence from things Trinidadian has obviosuly worked!

Actually the then Lord Shorty blended Indian rhythms with kasio to give birth to soca. In addition, while soca had a large influence on chutney, chutney has also influenced soca. Guettarda 18:30, 24 April 2006 (UTC)

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Music of India I changed it from "Calypso and music of India" to "Calypso and music of the Indias"...the indias are the caribbean islands, while India is the asian country...and it is Calypso+Chutney, where chutney is caribbean (though inspired in music from India, is not from India) I know chutney was originated by music of India+Caribbean music, but if you want to say a genre was inspired by music of India, it is chutney directly, not soca directly. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by AFOH (talk • contribs).

No, the origins of soca are not chutney, but actual Indian music. In addition, "music of the Indias" does not mean Caribbean music - it quite frankly doesn't mean anything in standard English. Guettarda 01:27, 19 November 2006 (UTC)