Comments on: Trini skin foreign mask? http://www.decooler.com/socanews/2005/01/trini-skin-foreign-mask Weblog for Caribbean music - Soca, Calypso, Pan and Carnival Culture - Est. 2003 Sat, 22 Nov 2008 08:43:01 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.3.3 By: Anonymous http://www.decooler.com/socanews/2005/01/trini-skin-foreign-mask#comment-47 Anonymous Thu, 01 Jan 1970 01:00:00 +0000 http://www.decooler.com/socanews/2005/01/trini-skin-foreign-mask#comment-47 Thanks for the link, dude. The thrust of my argument is not that soca should become set in stone, but that it should retain its identity as a party variant of calypso. It's one thing to update; it's another thing to lose one's way. What is soca? That seems to be the question that nobody can answer seriously. I think that if/when that question is answered, the singers might actually get serious about the musical structure of the melody which accompanies their lyrics. Then the shameless and unassimilated borrowing that deprives soca of its early originality might be a thing of the past. <br /><br />One last thing. You missed the other half of my comment about Rudder: "However, even he has engaged in a long love affair with soca that sounded like blues and other non-soca forms. Nevertheless, he might also have been the last serious composer for pan." <br /><br />Thanks to soca singers, who have wrested TT's own musical form from its roots and affiliation with pan, we must ask Cro Cro's question: "tell me whe' pan reach?" but alter it to "tell me whe' pan gone?" <br /><br /><A></A><A></A>Posted by<A><B> </B></A><A HREF="http://www.blogger.com/r?http%3A%2F%2Fcarib.us" TITLE="carib at carib dot us">CaribPundit</A> Thanks for the link, dude. The thrust of my argument is not that soca should become set in stone, but that it should retain its identity as a party variant of calypso. It’s one thing to update; it’s another thing to lose one’s way. What is soca? That seems to be the question that nobody can answer seriously. I think that if/when that question is answered, the singers might actually get serious about the musical structure of the melody which accompanies their lyrics. Then the shameless and unassimilated borrowing that deprives soca of its early originality might be a thing of the past.

One last thing. You missed the other half of my comment about Rudder: “However, even he has engaged in a long love affair with soca that sounded like blues and other non-soca forms. Nevertheless, he might also have been the last serious composer for pan.”

Thanks to soca singers, who have wrested TT’s own musical form from its roots and affiliation with pan, we must ask Cro Cro’s question: “tell me whe’ pan reach?” but alter it to “tell me whe’ pan gone?” 

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