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Soca

By: Hope Rosa Munro
In: The SAGE International Encyclopedia of Music and Culture
Edited by: Janet Sturman
Subject:Sociology of Culture, Social & Cultural Anthropology, Popular Music
Keywords:music

Soca is a style of popular dance music that emerged in the Caribbean islands of Trinidad and Tobago in the 1970s and is based on earlier styles of calypso music. Soca and its offshoots have come to dominate the popular music scene of this nation. The emergence of soca music is closely connected ...

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  Munro, H. (2019). Soca. In J. Sturman (Ed.), The SAGE international encyclopedia of music and culture (Vol. 1, pp. 1995-1996). SAGE Publications, Inc., https://www.doi.org/10.4135/9781483317731.n659
  
  Munro, Hope Rosa. "Soca." In The SAGE International Encyclopedia of Music and Culture, edited by Sturman, Janet, 1995-96. Thousand Oaks,, CA: SAGE Publications, Inc., 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.4135/9781483317731.n659.
  
  Munro, H. 2019. Soca. In: Janet Sturman Editor, 2019. The SAGE International Encyclopedia of Music and Culture, Thousand Oaks,, CA: SAGE Publications, Inc. pp. 1995-1996 Available at: <http://www.doi.org/10.4135/9781483317731.n659> [Accessed 14 May 2021].
  
  Munro, Hope Rosa. "Soca." The SAGE International Encyclopedia of Music and Culture. Edited by Janet Sturman. Vol. 1. Thousand Oaks,: SAGE Publications, Inc., 2019, pp. 1995-96. SAGE Knowledge. 14 May 2021, doi: http://www.doi.org/10.4135/9781483317731.n659.
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