Talk:Calypso music

Seriously Messed Up & Needs ASAP Fixing!

Resolved

I really hope someone has this on a "Watch List", because towards the end of the first section the article's gone all haywire! I don't know if it was a weird edit by someone or what, but I know nothing about this article... hi

There appears to be info there that belongs in someone's notes that they wrote while researching or something, as well as...well, I don't know exactly. Formatting issue, maybe?

Anyway, someone PLEASE come take a gander at this and try to fix it! Kailey elise (talk) 19:48, 20 December 2009 (UTC)

Subsequently fixed. The easiest way to fix these things is by examining the page history; very often the problem will have occurred within the last edit or two. In this case someone had done a crude copy-paste from another Wikipedia article. Adrian J. Hunter^{(talk•contribs)} 11:09, 18 January 2010 (UTC)

I know it's over a year later, but I just wanted to thank you for noticing & taking care of the edit error, Adrian! :) I must confess that even after all this time, I'm not very good at accessing/reading page histories & seeing the differences between various edits. *blush* I am ever so grateful that we have users like you who *do* take the time to understand how it works & generously donate their time to fixing things like this, as well as adding new stuff to the Wikipedia. Thanks again!

I signed up for an account mostly to just fix glaring spelling/grammar errors as I come across them in my generalized reading. ;) All the best! Kailey elise (talk) 16:33, 16 February 2011 (UTC)

really, what is calypso music?, need citation and facts on this —Preceding unsigned comment added by 67.82.90.213 (talk) 03:11, 26 November 2010 (UTC)

Correction

This article states that "Calypso is a style of Afro-Caribbean music which originated in the British and French colonial islands of the Caribbean at about the start of the 20th century." The 20th century would be the 1900s; however, later in the article, it says that Calypso music became more popular after "the abolition of slavery in 1834."

This seems to be contradictory...

Another Correction

I removed:

Lord Invader did not have a band called the Twelve Penetrators, and probably did not write "Zombie Jamboree" which is credited to Conrad Mauge. This story comes from a spoken introduction to the song by the Kingston Trio.

Because I don't understand it enough to incorporate the info, and I hate it when somebody contradicts the previous paragraph with new information that attempts to correct it. It's a roundabout way of doing things -- if the info on Lord Invader isn't correct, then correct it, but this schizophrenic method of adding contradictory information within the same article is just silly. User:Tokerboy

I agree. I removed the "Twelve Penetrators" from the main article; I don't know if he ever had a band called that but on the few Lord Invader cuts I have that isn't listed. -- Infrogmation

Sorry, I wanted to correct the mistake but didn't know if it was OK to just remove it. James Fryer (posted the removed section).

There really was a Lord Invader, but the Twelve Penetrators was a slightly blue song intro joke by Dave Guard before the Kingston Trio's performance of it on their landmark ...From the Hungry i album. But Invader didn't write the song - it was written by Winston O'Connor, a Trinidadian whose stage name was "Lord Intruder" who for whatever reason made up the "C.E. Mauge" pseudonym.But since that album sold 900,000 copies, the myth has persisted to this day.Sensei48 (talk) 22:34, 28 July 2009 (UTC)

Conrad Mauge and Lord Intruder were not the same person as far as I can ascertain. My belief is that Mauge copyrighted Intruder/O'Connor's song as happened to many songs in the mid-20th century (e.g. Invader's Rum & Coca Cola, Lion's Ugly Woman, the Jamaican folk song Day-O). However there are no reliable external sources for this. See the articles Jumbie Jamberee and Lord Intruder. Someone recently changed the credits in those articles to Mauge because there is documentation for his copyright even though it is probable he stole the song rather than writing it. James Fryer (talk) 09:08, 29 July 2009 (UTC)

Harry Belafonte

Is it really appropriate to include him in an article about 'calypso'? After all, as it mentions, his best known song is a Jamaican folk song (no banana exports from Trinidad to speak of). Calypso is a matter of composition and originality as well as song - Belafonte re-made calypsos, but you might as well call the Andrews Sisters calypsonians for their re-make of Lord Invader's Rum and Coca-Cola. True, he had more respect for the art-form than they did, but I would not call him a calypsonian. In addition, by changing the beat and mode he changed the substance. When Sparrow sang 'The Slave' people said it was a great song, but not a calypso.

History of the term Calypso in "Calypso Music"

If anyone knows it, it would be very informative to add the actual history of the term Calypso and how the music came to be named (for example, I would guess that it is not based on the Greek Sea Nymph or the Cousteau ship or camera, but I don't know).

There are a few theories, but no-one knows for sure. Some say it derives from "Kaiso", others from a slave named "Calypso" (slaves were often given Classical names). I'll see if I can dig out some references. Guettarda 23:01, 13 September 2005 (UTC)

The etymology section needs a reference to the earliest use of "Calypso" in its current form.--Jack Upland (talk) 22:33, 29 October 2010 (UTC)

Elements of the Music

Someone should add the elements of calypso to this page. I can't because I'm the one researching, not the source of research.

A bit more description please, and what about soca?

How about you calypso fans sharing a description of what makes calypso calypso? Describe it so that someone who hasn't heard it before might be able to identify it when first listening to it - typical rhythms, instruments, lyrics, etc.

I also suggest adding soul calypso or soca as a subgenre.

Apocalypsolically yours :), DBlomgren 10:42, 22 January 2007 (UTC)

I support DBlogren's question. And I have some questions about first paragraph: articles says, that calypso formed in the beginning of 20th century (but Africans used to sing to each other instead of speaking). But why then calypso took part in Carnival in 19th century, if it is not formed yet? If calypso already formed only in the beginning of 20th, then how do we call the roots of the calypso in 19th? Please, make that clear, because I'm not advanced in English, and for me this text is not understandable enough. Thank you. --ru:User:Nagash.

Wisky Tango Foxtrot?

Can someone explain what this means:

"Early forms of calypso were also heavily influenced by jazz such as Sans Humanitae, the extempo melody in which calypsonians lyricise impromptu, commenting socially or insulting each other, without humanity - once again the French influence."--24.15.11.254 06:54, 14 June 2007 (UTC)

Kitchener as melodic genius

I agree that he is, but I'm not sure that's something that's testable or encylopedic. I removed it. 129.79.32.239 (talk) 20:52, 25 March 2008 (UTC)

media

Isn't there an example in Wikimedia Commons that can be added here? Abisharan (talk) 22:39, 18 March 2010 (UTC)

Problematic edits

Hi

I am concerned that a user - Howie Bledsoe - is editing articles and not listening to advice. I tried to help him by copyediting one article for him, Lovey's String Band, put the refs in properly and left a note on his talk page [] with advice on how to improve his edits.

I have told him that he needs to check his edits as there have been many cases of him incorrectly adding carriage returns and spaces. This is resulting in articles wiht 6 or 7 paragraphs ending up being one huge paragraph such as Calypso music(where the lead summary is now longer than the article itself) Wilmoth_Houdini, Blake Alphonso Higgs, Lionel Belasco, Harry Belafonte#Film career and Lionel Belasco.

You also now have a List of calypso musicians that is peppered with red links introduced mainly by him.

He is also refusing to add edit summaries, in the around 100 edits he has done there is NOT ONE summary

Can someone have a look at his work please before this gets out of hand.

He is a new user and I am trying to give him leeway before starting more vigourous methods of control

Thanks...Chaosdruid (talk) 16:31, 22 June 2010 (UTC)

Chronological error

Here’s what is said,

“The term "calypso" is recorded from the 1930s onwards. The word was bastardized into "Calypso" when the early European settlers put the word into print.”

In the page about Trinidad and Tobago http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trinidad_and_Tobago it says that the early settlers got there as early as 1498. How could the early European settlers bastardize a word that wasn’t used until the 1930’s? Either the info about when the word was first recorded is wrong or the part about the early settlers is wrong. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 72.11.120.189 (talk) 16:03, 8 July 2011 (UTC)