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Soca music is musically different from calypso music in its tempo, lyrics and beat. Calypso music, mostly associated with gloomy and foreboding lyrics with a slow repetitive beat and continuous, steady tempo, seemed to have lost its hegemonic role as the sole Carnival music or music for the masses and was replaced by a high tempo music with lighter lyrics whose main responsibility was to create and foster wild abandon in its patrons while providing music for simply, dancing and pleasure. Soca developed as a fusion of calypso, cadence, and Indian musical instruments. In addition to those Caribbean-inspired sounds, it was African American soul in the mix that joined with calypso made soca or soul calypso music. As the nature and scope of the music industry has changed over time, so too, has the production of musical sounds. In such an environment, the sounds of the musical output from the yearly festival, Trinidad and Tobago Carnival has been changing over the last forty years. The recorded sounds of calypso music and soca music have been 32 morphing into variants of fusion mixes with elements such as dancehall, hip-hop, Latin folk, East Indian chutney, bhangra, rapso, rhythm-and-blues, and most recently with electronic dance music. This paper will interrogate the excursions into various sound changes over the period under review.\u003c/p\u003e"]}},{"label":{"en":["Language"]},"value":{"en":["English"]}},{"label":{"en":["Publisher"]},"value":{"en":["Association for Recorded Sound Collections"]}},{"label":{"en":["Rights Statement"]},"value":{"en":["\u003cp\u003eCopyright Association for Recorded Sound Collections\u003c/p\u003e"]}}],"summary":{"en":["\u003cp\u003eThis paper intends to focus on the range of sonic impressions which have been produced in Trinidad and Tobago's Calypso and Soca Music over the period 1973 - 2013. Soca music is musically different from calypso music in its tempo, lyrics and beat. Calypso music, mostly associated with gloomy and foreboding lyrics with a slow repetitive beat and continuous, steady tempo, seemed to have lost its hegemonic role as the sole Carnival music or music for the masses and was replaced by a high tempo music with lighter lyrics whose main responsibility was to create and foster wild abandon in its patrons while providing music for simply, dancing and pleasure. Soca developed as a fusion of calypso, cadence, and Indian musical instruments. In addition to those Caribbean-inspired sounds, it was African American soul in the mix that joined with calypso made soca or soul calypso music. As the nature and scope of the music industry has changed over time, so too, has the production of musical sounds. In such an environment, the sounds of the musical output from the yearly festival, Trinidad and Tobago Carnival has been changing over the last forty years. The recorded sounds of calypso music and soca music have been 32 morphing into variants of fusion mixes with elements such as dancehall, hip-hop, Latin folk, East Indian chutney, bhangra, rapso, rhythm-and-blues, and most recently with electronic dance music. This paper will interrogate the excursions into various sound changes over the period under review.\u003c/p\u003e"]},"requiredStatement":{"label":{"en":["Attribution"]},"value":{"en":["\u003cp\u003eCopyright Association for Recorded Sound Collections\u003c/p\u003e"]}},"provider":[{"id":"https://arsc.aviaryplatform.com/aboutus","type":"Agent","label":{"en":["Association for Recorded Sound Collections"]},"homepage":[{"id":"https://arsc.aviaryplatform.com/","type":"Text","label":{"en":["Association for Recorded Sound Collections"]},"format":"text/html"}],"logo":[{"id":"https://d9jk7wjtjpu5g.cloudfront.net/organizations/logo_images/000/000/019/original/ARSC_Full_Logo_RGB_K.jpg?1605438091","type":"Image"}]}],"thumbnail":[{"id":"https://d9jk7wjtjpu5g.cloudfront.net/collection_resource_files/thumbnails/000/121/884/small/ARSC_conf_2014_Sylvester_video_thmb.jpg?1675888129","type":"Image","format":"image/jpeg"}],"items":[{"id":"https://arsc.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1506/collection_resources/48860/file/121884","type":"Canvas","label":{"en":["Media File 1 of 2 - open-uri20210822-32762-1xuryxs.mp4"]},"duration":1960.81067,"width":640,"height":360,"thumbnail":[{"id":"https://d9jk7wjtjpu5g.cloudfront.net/collection_resource_files/thumbnails/000/121/884/small/ARSC_conf_2014_Sylvester_video_thmb.jpg?1675888129","type":"Image","format":"image/jpeg"}],"items":[{"id":"https://arsc.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1506/collection_resources/48860/file/121884/content/1","type":"AnnotationPage","items":[{"id":"https://arsc.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1506/collection_resources/48860/file/121884/content/1/annotation/1","type":"Annotation","motivation":"painting","body":{"id":"https://aviary-p-arsc.s3.wasabisys.com/collection_resource_files/resource_files/000/121/884/original/open-uri20210822-32762-1xuryxs.mp4?1629597432","type":"Video","format":"video/mp4","duration":1960.81067,"width":640,"height":360},"target":"https://arsc.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1506/collection_resources/48860/file/121884","metadata":[]}]}],"annotations":[]},{"id":"https://arsc.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1506/collection_resources/48860/file/255583","type":"Canvas","label":{"en":["Media File 2 of 2 - ARSC_conf_2014_Sylvester_audio.mp3"]},"duration":2422.02219,"width":640,"height":360,"thumbnail":[{"id":"https://d9jk7wjtjpu5g.cloudfront.net/public/images/audio-default.png","type":"Image","format":"image/png"}],"items":[{"id":"https://arsc.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1506/collection_resources/48860/file/255583/content/1","type":"AnnotationPage","items":[{"id":"https://arsc.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1506/collection_resources/48860/file/255583/content/2/annotation/1","type":"Annotation","motivation":"painting","body":{"id":"https://aviary-p-arsc.s3.wasabisys.com/collection_resource_files/resource_files/000/255/583/original/ARSC_conf_2014_Sylvester_audio.mp3?1730665836","type":"Audio","format":"audio/mpeg","duration":2422.02219,"width":640,"height":360},"target":"https://arsc.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1506/collection_resources/48860/file/255583","metadata":[]}]}],"annotations":[]}]}