One common assumption about the demographics of Coachella is that it’s a youth festival, dense with a superficiality that no grown-up, even singer Calypso Rose, could possibly enjoy. While it’s true ...
But it didn’t pan out. In May 1957, a banner headline in Variety screamed that “Calypso is Stone Dead”. By the year’s end, the calypso fad went the way of all fads. The Trinidad-born music did not go ...
"On the subject of calypso singers of Trinidad he was both knowledgeable and enthusiastic. The culture they sang about was tough, breezy, unsentimental. Vidia had written…'It is only in the calypso ...
Hardball is the spirit suited for these times even if he says so. He epitomises the ebb and tide of this day; he is an embodiment of the daily swirl of events, activities and news. Consider naked news ...
The temperature was hot, the food spicy and the dancing had a calypso flair at the second annual Treasure Coast Jerk Festival at the Port St. Lucie Civic Center. And like the Caribbean American ...
Popular Music is an international multi-disciplinary journal covering all aspects of the subject from the formation of social group identities through popular music, to the workings of the global ...
Unlock access to every one of the hundreds of articles published daily on BroadwayWorld by logging in with one click. GRAMMY Award-nominated multiplatinum global mega-star Luis Fonsi unleashes a new ...