The entrée and dessert — New York’s annual West Indian American Day Carnival Parade — is weeks away, but Everybody’s magazine’s Calypso-Soca Festival & Tent is an impressive appetizer leading up the ...

As Guyana celebrates Republicanism with Mashramani and the 2014 Trinidad Carnival moves into high gear, the greatest calypsonian of all time, The Mighty Sparrow, is awarded Trinidad and Tobago’s ...

What happens when memory learns to move through rhythm? In this episode of The Cause: Conversations on Music, History, and Democracy, Dr. Reiland Rabaka journeys across Jamaica, Cuba, Puerto Rico, New ...

Calypso and soca are both genres of music that originated in our twin-island nation, but they have distinct characteristics: • Calypso emerged during the colonial period. Its roots have been ...