Rapso Music of Trinidad and Tobago
Rapso has become the very powerful of these two major descendants of calypso; it emerged as Black Power and Pan-Africanist though extent i...
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Rapso
has become the very powerful of these two major descendants of calypso; it
emerged as Black Power and Pan-Africanist though extent in Trinidad. Lancelot
Layne is said to have innovated the genre with his 1971 nit known as Blow Away,
while Cheryl Byron introduced rapso to calypso tents in the year 1976. The word
rapso initial emerged in the year 1980 in Busting Out, and album by Brother
Resistance and his Network Riddum Ensemble. Rapso has newly become one of the
very widespread expressions of music on Trinidad itself, by is vastly
captivated into calypso during the Carnival festivities and competitions. The
1990s saw a more political and spiritual-awake type of rapso, which has been
imbued with soul and reggae music, as well as local J’ouvert, an early
foundation to Carnival which was made up of percussionist using make shift
materials to hammer out a sound. The trio ensemble of 3 canal as well as
musician like Atapan is among the very renowned current advocates.
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