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The list of calypsos with sociopolitical influences is sectioned by main topics. Calypso music is a worldwide phenomenon.

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American presence in Trinidad and Tobago[edit]

Aspirations / Dreams[edit]

Christmas period[edit]

Corruption / Criminality[edit]

The Mighty Shadow

Culture - Calypso / Carnival evolution[edit]

Culture - Calypso War / Extempo / Picong[edit]

Lord Invader, The Growler, Atilla the Hun and Roaring Lion (1943) - Calypso22

Culture - Icons (Calypso / Carnival / Pan)[edit]

Culture - Kalenda / Stick fighting[edit]

Culture - Steelpan[edit]

Steelpan - Renegades

Culture - Other[edit]

Drugs[edit]

Economy / Poverty[edit]

Education[edit]

Environment[edit]

Family relations[edit]

Feminism[edit]

Calypso Rose at Womex Awards - 2016

Food / Drink[edit]

Grandstanding / Boasting[edit]

Health[edit]

  • "Ah Fraid de AIDS" (1988), Mighty Sparrow[3]
  • "Asian Flu" (1958), Mighty Wrangler[19]
  • "Awakening" (The) (2021), Crazy[27]
  • "Backyard Jam" (2021), Farmer Nappy[27]
  • "Better Days" (2021), Patrice Roberts[27]
  • "Bush Medicine" (1971), Lord Relator[53]
  • "Doh JackAss the Scene" (2021), Devon Seale
  • "Ebola Scare" (2015), Myron B[27]
  • "Extempo Quarantine Challenge" (2020), Amery Brown[27]
  • "Extempo Quarantine Challenge" (2020), Brian London[27]
  • "Extempo Quarantine Challenge" (2020), Devon Seale[27]
  • "Extempo Quarantine Challenge" (2020), Heather MacIntosh[27]
  • "Extempo Quarantine Challenge" (2020), His Majesty Baker Jr (First of the chain)[27][54]
  • "Extempo Quarantine Challenge" (2020), Josef Paty[27]
  • "Extempo Quarantine Challenge" (2020), Michelle Henry[27]
  • "Extempo Quarantine Challenge" (2020), Raymond Ramnarine[27]
  • "Extempo Quarantine Challenge" (2020), Roger Mohammed[27]
  • "Extempo Quarantine Challenge" (2020), Singing Sandra[27]
  • "Extempo Quarantine Challenge" (2020), Stacey Sobers[27]
  • "Extempo Quarantine Challenge" (2020), Terri Lyons[27]
  • "Extempo Quarantine Challenge" (2020), Lady Watchman[27]
  • "Extempo Quarantine Challenge" (2020), Queen Victoria[27]
  • "Fighting AIDS" (2005), Adesh Samaroo[27]
  • "H.I.V" (2001), Mighty Shadow[27]
  • "How I Spent My Time at the Hospital" (1938), Lord Executor[19]
  • "Jaws" (1977), Lord Kitchener[11]
  • "Melancholy" (2021), Nailah Blackman[27]
  • "Ms Corona" (2020), G String[27]
  • "Negative to Positive" (1992), Bryan Bumba Payne[3]
  • "Pandemic" (2021), Brother Mudada
  • "Vaccine or Not" (2021), Kurt Allen[27]
  • "What Corona Do" (2021), Contender[27]

Humour / Puns / Smutty[edit]

(Portrait of Calypso, between 1938 and 1948) - Lord Invader

Jump up / Carnival dancing / Bacchanal[edit]

Machel Montano (Reggae Awards 2007)

LGBTQ[edit]

Machismo / Misogynist[edit]

National identity - Emigration[edit]

National identity - Immigration[edit]

National identity - Pride & hope[edit]

News events - West Indies[edit]

News events - World[edit]

Politics - Before independence (West Indies)[edit]

Politics - Federation (West Indies) - Caribbean Unity[edit]

Politics - From independence (West Indies)[edit]

Mighty Gabby

Politics - USA[edit]

Politics - World (Other)[edit]

Promotion / Advertising[edit]

Racial identity / Slavery[edit]

Dr Hollis "Chalkdust" Liverpool

Religion - Christian / Gospelypso[edit]

Religion - Others[edit]

Shango / Folklore[edit]

Social commentaries - Others[edit]

Spirituality / Philosophy[edit]

Sports - Cricket[edit]

Brian Lara

Sports - Others[edit]

Tabanca / Love / Jealousy[edit]

"Tabanca, tabanka, tabankca, tobanca (n) (Grenada, Guyana, Trinidad): A painful feeling of unrequited love, from loving someone who does not love in return, especially someone who was once a lover or spouse."[62]

War - Up to end of World War II[edit]

Wars - Post World War II[edit]

References[edit]

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Sources[edit]

Books[edit]

  • Abrahams, Roger D. (1983). The Man-of-words in the West Indies: Performance and the Emergence of Creole Culture. Johns Hopkins University Press. ISBN 9780801828386.
  • Attaway, William (2011). Calypso Song Book: Authentic Folk Music Of The Caribbean. Literary Licensing, LLC. ISBN 978-1258122133.
  • Birth, Kevin K. (2008). Bacchanalian sentiments : Musical experiences and political counterpoints in Trinidad. Durham: Duke University Press. ISBN 978-0-8223-4141-3. OCLC 165082227.
  • Constance, Zeno Obi (1991). Tassa,chutney & soca: The East Indian contribution to the calypso. Z.O. Constance.
  • Cowley, John (1998). Carnival, canboulay, and calypso : Traditions in the making. Cambridge. ISBN 0-521-65389-4. OCLC 41883641.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)
  • de Leon, Rafael (1986). Calypso from France to Trinidad: 800 years of history. Trinidad: General Printers of San Juan. LCCN 89100770. OCLC 59071686.
  • Dudley, Shannon (2004). Carnival music in Trinidad : Experiencing music, expressing culture. New York. ISBN 0-19-513833-3. OCLC 51607410.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)
  • Gibbs, Craig Martin (2015). Calypso and other music of Trinidad, 1912-1962 : An annotated discography. Jefferson, North Carolina. ISBN 978-1-4766-1931-6. OCLC 908763141.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)
  • Guilbault, Jocelyne (2007). Governing sound : The cultural politics of Trinidad's Carnival musics. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. ISBN 978-0-226-31059-6. OCLC 74029379.
  • Hill, Donald R. (1993). Calypso calaloo : Early carnival music in Trinidad. Gainesville. ISBN 0-8130-1221-X. OCLC 27727033.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)
  • Hodge, Merle; Ferreira, Jo-Anne (2009). Vini chanté an Patwa: (Come sing in patois) ; Patois songs of Trinidad and Tobago. Society for Caribbean Linguistics (SCL). ISBN 9789769510418.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)
  • Liverpool, First1=Hollis (Mighty Chalkdust) (1 June 1987). Calypsonians to remember. Virgin Islands Commission. ISBN 0937421022.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)
  • Liverpool, Hollis (2003). From the horse's mouth : An analysis of certain significant aspects in the development of the calypso and society as gleaned from personal communication with some outstanding calypsonians. Diego Martin, Trinidad: Juba Publications. ISBN 976-8194-13-8. OCLC 53795321.
  • Liverpool, Hollis (1986). Kaiso and society. Charlotte Amalie, St. Thomas, V.I.: Virgin Islands Commission on Youth. OCLC 19282261.
  • Liverpool, Hollis (2001). Rituals of power and rebellion : The carnival tradition in Trinidad and Tobago, 1763-1962. Chicago. ISBN 0-948390-80-8. OCLC 46536824.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)
  • Luis, Robert (1960). Authentic Calypso, the Song, the Music, the Dance. Latin American Institute Press.
  • Maharaj, George D. (2004). The roots of calypso, volume 1 - A short passage into the world of calypso. [Toronto]: G.D. Maharaj. ISBN 0-9734904-0-3. OCLC 57405250.
  • Maharaj, George D. (2007). The Roots of Calypso, Volume 2 - Another passage into the world of calypso. Trinidad and Tobago Hi Tech Printers Inc. Ltd.
  • Marshall, Trevor G. (1986). Notes on the history and evolution of calypso in Barbados. University of the West Indies, Cave Hill Campus, Department of History.
  • Mighty Sparrow (1963). One hundred and Twenty Calypsos to remember. Caribbean Printers.
  • Niranjana, Tejaswini (2006). Mobilizing India : Women, music, and migration between India and Trinidad. Durham: Duke University Press. ISBN 0-8223-3828-9. OCLC 64585850.
  • Nurse (2007). Unheard voices : The rise of steelband and calypso in the Caribbean and North America. New York: iUniverse. ISBN 978-0-595-40153-6. OCLC 137751788.
  • Ottley, Rudolph (1992). Women in calypso. Arima, Trinidad. ISBN 976-8136-24-3. OCLC 27868981.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)
  • Phillips, Everard M. (2009). The political calypso : A sociolinguistic process of conflict transformation. Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago: Personal Power Unlimited. ISBN 978-976-8223-28-9. OCLC 317116607.
  • Pierre, Giselle (2016). Calypso chronicles: history through calypso I. CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform. ISBN 9781508436201.
  • Pierre, Giselle (2021). Calypso chronicles: history through calypso II. Independently Published. ISBN 979-8548539021.
  • Paquet, Sandra Pouchet; Patricia Joan Saunders; Stephen Stuempfle (2007). Music, memory, resistance : Calypso and the Caribbean literary imagination. Kingston, Jamaica. ISBN 978-976-637-290-3. OCLC 173808219.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)
  • Quevedo, Raymond (Atilla the Hun) (1983). Attila's kaiso: A short history of Trinidad Calypso. St. Augustine, Trinidad & Tobago, West Indies: University of the West Indies, Dept. of Extra Mural Studies.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)
  • Regis, Louis (1999). The political calypso : True opposition in Trinidad and Tobago, 1962-1987. Gainesville, Fla.: University Press of Florida. ISBN 0-8130-2379-3. OCLC 48138016.
  • Rohlehr, Gordon (1990). Calypso & society in pre-independence Trinidad. Port of Spain, Trinidad. ISBN 976-8012-52-8. OCLC 23928095.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)
  • Rohlehr, Gordon (24 June 2021). The shape of that hurt. Caribbean Modern Classics. ISBN 9781845234645.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)
  • Rudder, David; La Rose, John (1990). Kaiso calypso music : David Rudder in conversation with John La Rose. London: New Beacon Books. ISBN 1-873201-00-1. OCLC 24849319.
  • Selvon, Sam (25 May 2023). Calypso in London. Penguin Classics. ISBN 9780241630877.
  • Thompson, Dave (2002). Reggae & caribbean music. Backbeat Books. pp. 5, 59. ISBN 0-87930-655-6.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)
  • Warner, Keith Q. (1982). Kaiso! The Trinidad calypso: A study of the calypso as oral literature. Washington, D.C. ISBN 0-89410-025-4. OCLC 8762968.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)

Journals[edit]

Articles[edit]

Audio[edit]

  • Calypso Dreams (CD). In for a penny, in for a pound, LLC. Ice Music, Ltd. 2009.
  • Calypso - Musical poetry in the Caribbean (1955 - 69) (CD). Soul Jazz records. 2014.
  • Calypsos from Trinidad - Politics, intrigue & violence in the 1930s (CD). Arhoolie Prod., Inc. 1991.
  • Melody vs. Sparrow - A friendly calypso feud (CD). Erasmus Black Records. 19 June 2020.

External links[edit]

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