soca
nounEtymology Blend of soul + calypso.
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Entertainment, Lifestyle, Music Usually A genre of music that originated in Trinidad and Tobago in the early 1970s and developed into a range of styles during the 1980s and after which primarily includes influences of African and Indian rhythms.
- He even turned up a few times after that—with mix-tapes of soca music, and handwritten notes, and tears.2012, Zadie Smith, NW, London: Penguin Books, published 2013, →ISBN, page 151:
- —Carnival? With soca music?2014, Marlon James, A Brief History of Seven Killings, Oneworld Publications (2015), page 684:
- Derived terms
- chutney-soca