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 ...

When Drupatee Ramgoonai stepped into the national spotlight in the mid-1980s, there was no language for what she was doing. Hindi lyrics were unheard of in soca music. East Indian women did not ...

When Kees Dieffenthaller was growing up in Trinidad and Tobago in the 1980s, the lively rhythms of soca and its predecessor calypso were the island’s sound — although they were usually exclusive to ...