The Carnival season in Trinidad has hardly opened, but already there is calypso controversy. Calypsonian the Mighty Cro Cro has antagonized sections of the Indo-Trinidadian community by urging ...

Naipaul in his book The Middle Passage. Naipaul stated:“...calypso is a purely local form. No song composed outside Trinidad is a calypso. The calypso deals with local incidents, local attitudes ...

Starting from the days of slavery and following through to the first decades of the twentieth century, this book traces the evolution of Carnival and secular black music in Trinidad and the links that ...

While hanging out with calypso stars Mighty Sparrow and Lord Invader on the Trinidadian set of 1957’s Fire Down Below, Mitchum hit on the idea of a cash-in album for Capitol execs eager to tap ...