Editing Calypso music (section)

== Etymology ==
It is thought that the name "calypso" was originally "kaiso" which is now believed to come from [[Efik language|Efik]] "ka isu" ("go on!") and [[Ibibio language|Ibibio]] "kaa iso" ("continue, go on"), used in urging someone on or in backing a contestant.<ref name=":0">Richard Allsopp, ''Dictionary of Caribbean English Usage'' (Oxford University Press, 1996), p. 131.</ref> There is also a Trinidadian term "cariso" that means "old-time" calypsos.<ref>Mendes (1986), p. 30.</ref> The term "calypso" is recorded from the 1930s onwards. Alternatively, the insert for ''The Rough Guide to Calypso and Soca'' (published by [[World Music Network]]) favours John Cowley's arguments in ''Carnival, Canboulay and Calypso: Traditions in the Making,'' that the word might be a corruption of the French ''carrouseaux'' and through the process of patois and Anglicization became ''caliso'' and then finally "calypso"; however, Cowley also notes that the first mention of the word "calypso" is given in a description of a dance in 1882 by Abbé Masse.<ref name=":1">John Cowley, [https://books.google.com/books?id=rHFOemkETacC&dq=%22Abb%C3%A9+Masse%22+calypso&pg=PA98 ''Carnival, Canboulay and Calypso: Traditions in the Making''] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170109015036/https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=rHFOemkETacC&pg=PA98&lpg=PA98&dq=%22Abb%C3%A9+Masse%22+calypso&source=bl&ots=yCiZXj3znX&sig=1Sw7oZ37Mb4366LcDQiSrsJ4mrk&hl=en&sa=X&ei=QXJFUrq_Aq2b0wWe3YCABg&ved=0CDAQ6AEwAA#v=onepage&q=%22Abb%C3%A9%20Masse%22%20calypso&f=false |date=2017-01-09 }}, Cambridge University Press, p. 98.</ref>