Word: calypsos
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...vogue of hillbilly and "country" tunes may have something to do with Marais' new popularity with the jukebox trade. But his songs have engaging, Calypso-style rhythms of their own, and turns of phrase in the lyrics (e.g., "How lovely cooks the meat") that never came from Tin Pan Alley...
...Belgian Congo last week, the most popular record was a song called Klim Abikisi Mwana. In their beehive huts, natives played it on their ancient, hand-cranked phonographs, clapping their hands gleefully to its calypso-like rhythm. Although the average Bantu laborer makes only about 50? a day, the record was so popular that some 15,000 had already been sold at $1.10 each...
With voodoo dances arranged by Choreographer Jack Cole and plantation music the Royal Caribbean calypso ensemble, Lydia Bailey is redolent of a studio backlot jungle. As a result, moviegoers may get the feeling that the camera, by moving a frame to the right or left, might catch sight of a Southern California orange-juice stand...
...Calypso-like musings of Edith Efron, U.S.-born wife of a Port au Prince businessman, as reported in the Haiti...
Only in Panama would joy be confined. There, an outbreak of 130 polio cases led President Arnulfo Arias to call off all public assemblies. But in Trinidad, the calypso tents have been billowing for weeks to the chants of contenders for the title of 1951 calypso king. In Haiti, more than 30,000 people, clad in bamboo suits of armor and other bizarre costumes, loped along mountain trails on their way to masquerade in Port-au-Prince. In Buenos Aires' downtown Avenida de Mayo, colored lights, bunting and comic posters went up in preparation for a municipal jamboree...