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The list of calypsos with sociopolitical influences is sectioned by main topics. Calypso music is a worldwide phenomenon. This is a dynamic list of songs and may never be able to satisfy particular standards for completeness.
This is a list of calypso musicians. Bands and artists are listed by the first letter in their name (not including the words "a", "an", or "the"). ... Bibliography of ...
Calypsonians traditionally use sobriquets linked with the ideas they wish to convey or referencing childhood or community-based "nick-names", including some such as the Mighty Sparrow, Short Shirt of Antigua and Ras Irie of Barbados.
(Includes the words to many old calypsos as well as musical scores for some of Atilla's calypsos.) Rohlehr, Gordon. A Scuffling of Islands: Essays on Calypso (Lexicon Trinidad LTD, 2004), ISBN 976-631-034-3.* Gittens, Sinclair (August 12, 2010). "The origin of calypso". Nation Newspaper. Archived from the original on January 10, 2017
Pages in category "Calypsonians" The following 84 pages are in this category, out of 84 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. ...
Raymond Quevedo (24 March 1892 – 22 February 1962), [1] better known as Atilla the Hun, was a calypsonian from Trinidad.He began singing in 1911 and was at his most prominent in the 1930s and 1940s. [1]
Extempo is similar to the African-American tradition of "the Dozens" in its competitive aspect, but may be distinguished in that the aim is not to improvise humorous abuse to an opponent, incorporating a given form of words, but to entertain an audience of one's competitors while extemporizing on a given theme. The abuse or sarcasm may be ...
Sir MacLean Emanuel (born 28 February 1942), better known as King Short Shirt, is an Antiguan singer, best known as one of Antigua's longest standing and most successful calypsonians, but later producing gospel music. [1]