The Caribbean is more than a tourist destination, and East Tennesseans of Caribbean descent want to share that. To that end, they’ll be celebrating Caribbean Heritage Month with “Steelpan in the Park” ...

It's officially looking and feeling like summer these days and The Free just dropped a single that's just perfect for this time of year. "Calypso" is the latest from this Sudan-born, Toronto-based ...

Cultural history and the arts -- Caribbean festival arts -- Music of the English-speaking Caribbean and its diaspora -- Regional studies -- Biographical and critical studies -- Sources consulted -- ...

Reggae music became popular in the late 1960s, when young people were excited about it and gravitated to the new sound. The artists were mainly grass-roots people who used their voices to articulate a ...

"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 ...

This recent Soul Jazz comp explores calypso's roots as party music that doubled as a delivery system for current events, street wisdom, social humor, and reflections on daily life. Save this story ...