The Rise of Soca
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By the early 1970s, Jamaican reggae had replaced calypso as the music
from the English-speaking Caribbean with the widest international popularity.
Still, calypso remained the dominant form of popular music in Trinidad
and many other Eastern Caribbean countries. The 1970s, in fact, were a
period of significant creativity in calypso. Singers and musicians, influenced
by American soul and funk, developed a new form of calypso known as "soca."
