List of calypsos with sociopolitical influences

The list of calypsos with sociopolitical influences is sectioned by main topics. Calypso music is a worldwide phenomenon.

American presence in Trinidad and Tobago

Aspirations / Dreams

Christmas period

Corruption / Criminality

The Mighty Shadow

Culture - Calypso / Carnival evolution

Culture - Calypso War / Extempo / Picong

Lord Invader, The Growler, Atilla the Hun and Roaring Lion (1943) - Calypso22

Culture Icons (Calypso / Carnival / Pan)

Culture - Steelpan

Steelpan - Renegades

Culture - Other

Drugs

Economy / Poverty

Education

Environment

Family relations

Feminism

Calypso Rose at Womex Awards - 2016

Food / Drink

Grandstanding / Boasting

Health

  • "Ah Fraid de AIDS" (1988), Mighty Sparrow[3]
  • "Asian Flu" (1958), Mighty Wrangler[23]
  • "Awakening" (The) (2021), Crazy[33]
  • "Backyard Jam" (2021), Farmer Nappy[33]
  • "Better Days" (2021), Patrice Roberts[33]
  • "Bush Medicine" (1971), Lord Relator[64]
  • "Doh JackAss the Scene" (2021), Devon Seale
  • "Ebola Scare" (2015), Myron B[33]
  • "Extempo Quarantine Challenge" (2020), Amery Brown[33]
  • "Extempo Quarantine Challenge" (2020), Brian London[33]
  • "Extempo Quarantine Challenge" (2020), Devon Seale[33]
  • "Extempo Quarantine Challenge" (2020), Heather MacIntosh[33]
  • "Extempo Quarantine Challenge" (2020), His Majesty Baker Jr (First of the chain)[33][65]
  • "Extempo Quarantine Challenge" (2020), Josef Paty[33]
  • "Extempo Quarantine Challenge" (2020), Michelle Henry[33]
  • "Extempo Quarantine Challenge" (2020), Raymond Ramnarine[33]
  • "Extempo Quarantine Challenge" (2020), Roger Mohammed[33]
  • "Extempo Quarantine Challenge" (2020), Singing Sandra[33]
  • "Extempo Quarantine Challenge" (2020), Stacey Sobers[33]
  • "Extempo Quarantine Challenge" (2020), Terri Lyons[33]
  • "Extempo Quarantine Challenge" (2020), Lady Watchman[33]
  • "Extempo Quarantine Challenge" (2020), Queen Victoria[33]
  • "Fighting AIDS" (2005), Adesh Samaroo[33]
  • "H.I.V" (2001), Mighty Shadow[33]
  • "How I Spent My Time at the Hospital" (1938), Lord Executor[23][44]
  • "Jaws" (1977), Lord Kitchener[14]
  • "Melancholy" (2021), Nailah Blackman[33]
  • "Ms Corona" (2020), G String[33]
  • "Negative to Positive" (1992), Bryan Bumba Payne[3]
  • "Pandemic" (2021), Brother Mudada
  • "Vaccine or Not" (2021), Kurt Allen[33]
  • "Weed Woman" (1952), Bill Rogers[23][9]
  • "What Corona Do" (2021), Contender[33]

Humour / Puns / Smutty

(Portrait of Calypso, between 1938 and 1948) - Lord Invader

Jump up / Carnival dancing / Bacchanal

Machel Montano (Reggae Awards 2007)

LGBTQ

Machismo / Misogynist

National identity - Emigration

National identity - Immigration

National identity - Pride & hope

News events - West Indies

News events - World

Politics West Indies - Before Trinidad's Independence (1962)

Politics - Federation (West Indies) / Caribbean Unity

Politics (West Indies) - From Trinidad independence (1962)

Mighty Gabby

Politics - USA

Politics - World (Other)

Promotion / Advertising

Racial identity / Slavery

Dr Hollis "Chalkdust" Liverpool

Religion - Christian / Gospelypso

Religion - Others

Shango / Folklore

Social commentaries - Others

South Africa - Apartheid

Spirituality / Philosophy

Sports - Cricket

Brian Lara

Cricket 1920 - 1939

Cricket 1940 - 1959

Cricket 1960 - 1979

Cricket 1980 - 1999

  • "Ah Ready" (1996), Lord Contender[49]
  • "Bankie’s Son" (1999), David Rudder[49]
  • "Bat On" (1997), Brother Marvin[49]
  • "Bat on Lara" (1999), De Alberto[49]
  • "Beyond a Boundary" (1993), MBA[39][2][49]
  • "Blackwash" (1985), Roots Man[39][49]
  • "Brian Lara" (1995), Watchman
  • "Caribbean Party" (1993), David Rudder[49]
  • "Celebrate" - "Celebration" (1995), Denyse Plummer[49]
  • "Chanderpaul" (1998), Terry Gajraj[49]
  • "Clean Sweep" (1990), Becket[49][74]
  • "Clive Lloyd" (1985), Lord Have Mercy[49]
  • "Coconut Cricket" (1999), Abbi Blackman[49]
  • "Combine" (1981), Becket[74][49]
  • "Courtney" (1999), Black Stalin[49]
  • "Cricket in the Jungle" (1985), Tradewinds[49]
  • "Cricket Soca Fever" (1983), Val Mason[49]
  • "Cricket Song (The) - Come, Go See the West Indies" (1980), Clayton Davis[49]
  • "Crickitics" (1987), Luta[49]
  • "Curtly Ambrose" (1993), Calypso Douglas[49]
  • "Curtly Ambrose" (1995), Lord Relator[49]
  • "Four Lara Four" - "Laramania" (1995), Defosto[13][49]
  • "Gravy" (1990), King Progress[49]
  • "Here Come the West Indies" (1994), David Rudder[39][2][49]
  • "Is Only Sport" (1995), Kurt Allen[49]
  • "King Lara" (1994), Count Robin[49]
  • "Knock Dem Down" (1992), David Rudder[49]
  • "Lara" (1994), DeLamo[49]
  • "Lara Promenade" (1995), Magruff[49]
  • "Laramania" (A Pretty Pretty Senorita …) (1994), All Rounder[49]
  • "Laramania" (The whole Caribbean Went Wild …) (1994), Becket[49]
  • "Lash Dem Lara" (1994), Alexander D. Great[49]
  • "Legacy" (1995), David Rudder[39][49]
  • "Like Lara" (1995), Richard MacIntosh[49]
  • "My Hero" (1995), Hollis Wright[49]
  • "One Gone Again" (1993), All Rounder[49]
  • "Pace in yuh Waist" (1994), Tony Wilson[49]
  • "Rally 'Round the West Indies" (1988), David Rudder[27][13][39][2][28][49]
  • "Reason (The)" (1983), Short Pants[49]
  • "Reunite our Cricket Team" (1992), King Short Shirt[49]
  • "Richie Richardson" (1989), King Progress[49]
  • "Scamps Like These" (1998), Heather MacIntosh[49]
  • "Signal to Lara" (1995), Superblue[13][30][49]
  • "We are the Champions" (1985), Tradewinds[49]
  • "We Coming Back" (1996), Bally[49]
  • "We Coming Back" (1999), Becket[49][74]
  • "West Indian Cricket" (1999), De Mighty Trini[49]
  • "West Indies I Feel the Pain" (1998), Alicia Pamponette[49]
  • "West Indies Warriors" (1996), Kurt Allen[49]

Cricket 2000 - 2019

  • "Ah Feel for Gayle" (2016), Cro Cro[49]
  • "Answer de Call" (2001), Sanell Dempster & Sean Paul[49]
  • "Are you There" (2001), Alison Hinds[49]
  • "Bigger Better Cricket" (2005), Alison Hinds[49]
  • "Brian Lara" (2008), Fashion Police[49]
  • "Champion" (2016), DJ Bravo[49]
  • "Champions" (2007), David Rudder[49]
  • "Chanderpaul" (2010), De Alberto[49]
  • "Chanderpaul" (2013), B. Deokarran[49]
  • "Charles Brian" (2006), D Dozie[49]
  • "Come Rise with me" (2007), Machel Montano & Claudette Peters[49]
  • "Cricket" - "It’s Over" (2007), David Rudder[49]
  • "Cricket is we Ting" (2007), Becket[74][49]
  • "Cricket Lovely Cricket in Guyana" (2007), Terry Gajraj[49]
  • "D Oval" (2011), D Dozie[49]
  • "De Call" (2006), Calypso Kerr[49]
  • "Everybody Love Courtney" (2000), Becket[74][49]
  • "Game of Love and Unity" (2007), Shaggy[49]
  • "Get in de Game" (2004), Machel Montano[49]
  • "He Strikes Again" - "Lara" (2005), De Fosto[49]
  • "Hold on to Cricket" (2005), Dice[49]
  • "Hooper and Chanderpaul" (2001), Tradewinds[49]
  • "How we Play" (2013), Kes (band)[49]
  • "ICC Champs" (2004), Relator[49]
  • "It’s a West Indian Thing" - "Bounce" (2006), David Rudder[49]
  • "Lara Again" (2004), Becket[74][49]
  • "Lara Touch" (2007), Tobago Chalkie[49]
  • "Laramania" (2007), Becket[74]
  • "Lash dem Learie" (2010), Alexander D Great[49]
  • "Legacy (The)" - "Lara" (2006), Tallish[49]
  • "Live the Passion" (2003), Rupee[49]
  • "Lovely Day" (2007), David Rudder[49]
  • "Make me Believe Again" (2016), Kendal John[49]
  • "Malcolm Marshall" (2000), Mighty Gabby[49]
  • "Play Ball" (2006), Mighty Lingo[49]
  • "Prince of Port of Spain (The)" (2007), Rootsman[49]
  • "Sir Gary" (2002), Mighty Gabby[49]
  • "Smiling Eyes of Steel" (2000), David Rudder[33][49]
  • "Song for Lara" (2005), Kia Panman[49]
  • "Tanty Merle" (2007), Abbi Blackman[49]
  • "Two Great Bowlers" (2003), Sugar Aloes[49]
  • "Understanding is the Problem" (2009), Alpha[49]
  • "We are Back" (2005), Heather MacIntosh[49]
  • "We Are the West Indies" (2011), Tian Winter[49]
  • "Welcome" (2007), Becket[49][74]
  • "West Indies Cricket" (2012), Alison Hinds[49]
  • "West Indies Forever" (2004), Rootsman[49]
  • "West Indies Forever" (2007), Becket[49][74]
  • "West Indies Forever" (2007), Gino McKoy[49]
  • "West Indies Now and Forever" (2004), Alison Hinds[49]
  • "West Indies Posse" (2004), King Punkwa[49]
  • "WICB Take a Rest" (2008), Tradewinds[49]
  • "World Cup Cricket" (2007), Anderson ‘Blood’ Armstrong[49]

Cricket 2020 - 2039

Sports - Others

Tabanca / Love / Jealousy

"Tabanca, tabanka, tabankca, tobanca (n) (Grenada, Guyana, Trinidad): A painful feeling of unrequited love, from loving someone who does not love in return, especially someone who was once a lover or spouse."[75]

War - Up to end of World War II

Wars - Post World War II

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Articles

Audio

  • Calypso Breakaway (Record). Rounder Records Corporation, Cambridge, Massachusetts. 1990.
  • Calypso Dreams (CD). In for a penny, in for a pound, LLC. Ice Music, Ltd. 2009.
  • Calypso - Musical poetry in the Caribbean (1955 - 69) (CD). Soul Jazz records. 2014.
  • Calypsos from Trinidad - Politics, intrigue & violence in the 1930s (CD). Arhoolie Prod., Inc. 1991.
  • Melody vs. Sparrow - A friendly calypso feud (CD). Erasmus Black Records. 19 June 2020.