Below, NPR Music celebrates and looks back on 50 years of the form, choosing one song per year to trace the genre's shifting sound. Many selections have won Trinidad carnival's prestigious ...

Below, NPR Music celebrates and looks back on 50 years of the form, choosing one song per year to trace the genre's shifting sound.

Soca's history: a timeline in song 1973 – Lord Shorty, "Indrani" In 1973, calypso artist Lord Shorty recorded "Indrani," a song that fused Indian instrumentation with African-influenced calypso ...

Reggae/Dancehall Fresh Picks of the Month: Hector Roots Lewis, Nailah Blackman, Jahshii, Adam O & More Listen to 10 new must-hear reggae, dancehall and soca songs by Yung Bredda and Lu City.

2013 – Blaxx, "Leh Go" While EDM's impact has since receded, Afrobeats now exerts an even stronger sway. Olatunji Yearwood's tuneful Afro-soca "Oh Yay" embodies the reciprocal influences between ...

If it sounds like soca, and makes you dance like soca – is it still definitely soca music? The success of the carnival song, Differentology, by the artist Bunji Garlin has spurred public debate about ...

Soca music fans subsist in a feast-or-famine world. Feasts come during Carnival — especially Trinidad Carnival, king of them all — when the exuberant, dance-driven tunes are released faster ...