Moreover, it documents and analyses both Lakhan's contribution to the genre of chutney music and the poetics of his songs—neither of which have been done before, although Lakhan had been on the stage/scene since the 1970s. Books (e.g. Manuel; Ramnarine), book chapters (e.g. ...
“In the early ’70s [the late] Ras Shorty I took Indian dholak drumming [from chutney music, another Indo-Trinidadian creation], fused it with calypso’s African rhythms, and soca was born — against the wishes of the purists,” notes Montano, who came to prominence in 1986 as the ...
Calypso and the newer soca are important musical genres in a spectrum that includes chutney and chutney-soca, forming, as the previous chapters show, a crucial arena of cultural-political intervention. This chap¬ter will discuss how all of these genres draw on Hindi film music, marking yet ...
In her engaging exploration of the fate of Indian classical music and new popular styles such as Hindi calypso, soca, and chutney, she even finds herself at the ancestral home of Trinidadian V. S. Naipaul in India. Copiously illustrated and accompanied by a compact disk, "Music of Hindu ...