Calypso 1 
Approche comparée des patrimoines culturels caribéens CALYPSO IN TRINIDAD
LATOUR Maëva L3 Anglais
Table of content
Introduction ………………………………………………………….p2
I The Origin of Calypso :The result of the colonial history and multiculturalism of Trinidad …………………………………………p3
II The social Significance of Calypso : creation of an art form defying oppression………………………………………………………………….p4-5 III The Evolution of Calypso : from popular music to fame : An heritage and riches shared by Caribbean people. ………………………………p6-9
IV Calypso similarities in the Caribbean………………………………p 10
Conclusion……………………………………………………………..p11
Bibliography……………………………………………………………..p12
Annexes…………………………………………………………………..p13-21
Calypso also called kaiso is the national folk song of Trinidad and Tobago and a very popular music of the Caribbean .This music influenced by the mixture of African and French culture became the voice of people. Due to complex and often traumatic historical processes, the Caribbean has been shaped as a space of creolization. concept of cultural creolisation, introduced in anthropology by Ulf Hannerz (1992), refers to the intermingling and mixing of two or several formerly discrete traditions or cultures. […] Creolisation, as it is used by some anthropologists, is an analogy taken from linguistics. This discipline in turn took the term from a particular aspect of colonialism, namely the uprooting and displacement of large numbers of people in the plantation economies of certain colonies, such as Louisiana, Jamaica, Trinidad, Réunion and Mauritius.1
What I call creolization is the encounter, the interference, the clash, the harmonies and disharmonies between cultures in the accomplished totality of the earth-world.2 Calypso is an oral tradition created in the plantation system. It allowed to deliver the complaints and criticism of the population. In the cultural climate of colonization , slaves had to find a way to express themselves . They
LATOUR Maëva L3 Anglais
Table of content
Introduction ………………………………………………………….p2
I The Origin of Calypso :The result of the colonial history and multiculturalism of Trinidad …………………………………………p3
II The social Significance of Calypso : creation of an art form defying oppression………………………………………………………………….p4-5 III The Evolution of Calypso : from popular music to fame : An heritage and riches shared by Caribbean people. ………………………………p6-9
IV Calypso similarities in the Caribbean………………………………p 10
Conclusion……………………………………………………………..p11
Bibliography……………………………………………………………..p12
Annexes…………………………………………………………………..p13-21
Calypso also called kaiso is the national folk song of Trinidad and Tobago and a very popular music of the Caribbean .This music influenced by the mixture of African and French culture became the voice of people. Due to complex and often traumatic historical processes, the Caribbean has been shaped as a space of creolization. concept of cultural creolisation, introduced in anthropology by Ulf Hannerz (1992), refers to the intermingling and mixing of two or several formerly discrete traditions or cultures. […] Creolisation, as it is used by some anthropologists, is an analogy taken from linguistics. This discipline in turn took the term from a particular aspect of colonialism, namely the uprooting and displacement of large numbers of people in the plantation economies of certain colonies, such as Louisiana, Jamaica, Trinidad, Réunion and Mauritius.1
What I call creolization is the encounter, the interference, the clash, the harmonies and disharmonies between cultures in the accomplished totality of the earth-world.2 Calypso is an oral tradition created in the plantation system. It allowed to deliver the complaints and criticism of the population. In the cultural climate of colonization , slaves had to find a way to express themselves . They