Editing Soca music (section)

==French Creole impact on soca==
The main source of soca is calypso developed in [[Trinidad]] in the 18th and 19th centuries from the West African [[kaiso]] and [[canboulay music]] brought by enslaved Africans and Immigrants from the [[French Antilles]] to [[Trinidad]] to work on sugar plantations after the [[Cedula of Population]] of 1783.<ref>[https://universaldancemoves.weebly.com/calypso.html  Calypso Worldwide] Retrieved 27 November 2020</ref> The Africans brought to toil on sugar plantations, were stripped of many connections to their homeland and family. They used calypso to mock the slave masters and to communicate with each other. Many early calypsos were sung in [[French-based creole languages|French Creole]] by an individual called a [[griot]]. As calypso developed, the role of the griot became known as a ''chantuelle'' and eventually, ''[[calypsonian]]''.

Modern calypso, however, began in the 19th century, a fusion of disparate elements ranging from the [[Masquerade ceremony|masquerade]] song ''[[lavway]]'', French Creole ''[[Bèlè (dance)|belair]]'' and the [[calinda]] stick-fighting [[chantwell]]. Calypso's early rise was closely connected with the adoption of Carnival by [[Trinidadian]] slaves, including [[canboulay]] drumming and the music masquerade processions. The French brought [[Carnival]] to Trinidad, and calypso competitions at Carnival grew in popularity, especially after the [[Abolitionism in the United Kingdom|abolition of slavery]] in 1834.

Cadence-lypso is a fusion of [[cadence rampa]] from [[Haiti]] and [[calypso music|calypso]] from [[Trinidad and Tobago|Trinidad & Tobago]] that has also spread to other English speaking countries of the Caribbean. Originated in the 1970s by the [[Dominica]]n band [[Exile One]] on the island of [[Guadeloupe]], it spread and became popular in the dance clubs around the Creole world and Africa as well as the [[French Antilles]].<ref name=Rabess>{{Cite book |chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=liV8AwAAQBAJ&pg=PA96 |pages=96–9 |last=Rabess |first=Gregory |chapter=Cadence-Lypso |title=Bloomsbury Encyclopedia of Popular Music of the World |volume=9 |editor=John Shepherd, David Horn |publisher=Bloomsbury Publishing |year=2014 |isbn=9781441132253}} Genres: Caribbean and Latin America.</ref><ref name=Guilbault>{{Cite book |url=https://archive.org/details/zoukworldmusicin00guil |url-access=registration |page=[https://archive.org/details/zoukworldmusicin00guil/page/50 50] |first=Jocelyne |last=Guilbault |title=Zouk: World Music in the West Indies |publisher=University of Chicago Press |year=1993 |isbn=9780226310428}}</ref><ref name=Crask>{{Cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=BQyakcstEWoC&pg=PA15 |page=15 |title=Dominica |last=Crask |first=Paul |publisher=Bradt Travel Guides |year=2008 |isbn=9781841622170 |access-date=2014-12-19 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150517095950/https://books.google.com/books?id=BQyakcstEWoC&pg=PA15 |archive-date=2015-05-17 |url-status=live }}</ref>

In the French Antilles, cadence-lypso evolved into [[zouk]] as popularized by [[Kassav]] in the 1980s. Kassav' was formed in 1979 by Pierre-Edouard Décimus (former musicians from the Les Vikings de Guadeloupe) and [[Paris]] studio musician [[Jacob Desvarieux]]. Together and under the influence of well-known [[Dominica]]n, [[Haiti]]an and Guadeloupean [[Cadence rampa|kadans]] or compas bands like [[Experience 7]], [[Grammacks]], [[Exile One]],  [[Les Aiglons]], [[Tabou Combo]], Les Freres Dejean, etc., they decided to make [[Music of Guadeloupe|Guadeloupean carnival music]] recording it in a more fully orchestrated yet modern and polished style. This style of music had an impact on a certain style of soca known as "zouk soca", mostly produced in [[St. Lucia]].

The nineties in Dominica was dominated by a new musical form called [[bouyon music]]. The best-known band in the genre is [[Windward Caribbean Kulture]] (WCK), who originated the style in 1988 by experimenting with a fusion of cadence-lypso and [[jing ping]]. They began using native drum rhythms such as [[lapo kabwit]] and elements of the music of jing ping bands, as well as [[ragga]]-style vocals.

Bouyon influenced a certain style of soca known as [[bouyon soca]]. Bouyon soca typically blends old bouyon music [[rhythm]]s from the '90s and soca music creating a unique style soca sound. The style of music was made more popular to the Caribbean region by the likes of the producer Dada and artists ASA from Dominica with collaborations from Trinidadian and St. Vincentian artists such as [[Skinny Fabulous]], [[Bunji Garlin]], Iwer George and [[Machel Montano]]. Hit songs featuring bouyon flavored rhythms and sounds and familiar soca attributes include "Famalay" and "Conch Shell".