When Drupatee Ramgoonai stepped into the national spotlight in the mid-1980s, there was no language for what she was doing.

Hip-hop isn't the only cultural movement celebrating its golden anniversary this year; soca, the up-tempo, propulsive descendant of calypso created in Trinidad and embraced across the Caribbean ...

A musical stew made up of the deeply flavorful ingredients of the wildly different styles of Soca and Chutney music, which incorporates Hindi lyrics and Indian instruments most typically the dholak, ...

Soca music is not for the faint at heart. The Trinidadian genre is calypso's faster, raunchier, studio-driven wayward child; the word comes from "soul of calypso," and the genre was inaugurated in the ...