Rapeseed

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Rapso is a style of music that originated in Trinidad and Tobago in the 1970s .

definition

Rapso combines the musical genres Soca and Calypso , which originated in Trinidad, with the rhythmic chant of rap and elements of Jamaican dub .

history

The term "Rapso" is not a suitcase word from "Rap" and "Soca" or "Rap" and "Calypso", but is a simplification of the (English) word "Rhapsody" (German: Rhapsodie ). Rapso came into being against the background of the black power movement , which was very present in Trinidad in the 1970s and was accompanied by numerous unrest . Afro-Trinidadians make up about 40% of the country's population, and along with the black power movement, there was a return to African traditions among Trinidadian cultural workers in the 1970s. Rapso artists saw themselves in the tradition of West African griots and as spoken word artists. Several people come into question as the "inventors" of rapeseed; an artist often mentioned in this context is Lancelot Layne , who in 1970 released the single Blow Way, the first recorded music to be ascribed to the genre. In the mid-1970s, the singer Cheryl Byron made the new style of music known to a wider public, as she was allowed to perform in the calypso tent of Lord Shorty (who in turn is considered to be the composer of the first published Soca song) at Carnival time . The term "Rapso" itself was first coined in the 1980s by the musician Brother Resistance .

Individual evidence

  1. Michael Anthony: Historical Dictionary of Trinidad and Tobago . Scarecrow Press, London 1997, ISBN 0-8108-3173-2 , pp. 470 .
  2. Carole Boyes Davies (Ed.): Encyclopedia of the African Diaspora: Origins, Experiences, and Culture . tape 3 . ABC-CLIO, Santa Barbara 2008, ISBN 978-1-85109-700-5 , pp. 792 .
  3. NALIS.gov.tt: Rapso ( Memento of March 12, 2010 in the Internet Archive )
  4. Jocelyne Guilbault: Governing Sound: The Cultural Politics of Trinidad's Carnival Musics . University of Chicago Press, Chicago 2007, ISBN 978-0-226-31060-2 , pp. 183 .
  5. Interview with Brother Resistance. ( Memento of September 29, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) Rootz.net