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* Calypso ( Bokononism ), songs from The Books of Bokonon from Kurt Vonnegut's novel Cat's Cradle ( 1963 )
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In 1950, he founded the French Oceanographic Campaigns ( FOC ), and leased a ship called Calypso from Thomas Loel Guinness for a symbolic one franc a year.
The celebration was given a more organised form in 1974, including a Miss Culture Show and a Calypso Competition, as well as drama performances, old fashion Troupes ( including Johnny Walkers, Giant and Spear, Bulls, Red Cross and Blue Ribbon ), arts and crafts exhibitions and recipe competitions.
* Ogygian Nymphs ( Island of Ogygia ), four handmaidens of Calypso
Several films jumped on the calypso craze in 1957 such as Island in the Sun ( 20th Century Fox ) that featured Belafonte and the low-budget films Calypso Joe ( Allied Artists ), Calypso Heat Wave ( Columbia Pictures ), and Bop Girl Goes Calypso ( United Artists ).
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He also wrote or co-wrote songs for other artists such as " Calypso Rock " for Dave Day and The Red Coats on Kapp in 1956, " A. B. C.
Many of the compositions recorded for Calypso, including " Banana Boat Song " and " Jamaica Farewell ", gave songwriting credit to Irving Burgie, Belafonte and his team, but were really previously recorded Jamaican mento songs sold as calypso.
* Calypso War, Kings of Calypso, and Trojan Calypso boxed set all feature the same set of songs recorded in the United Kingdom in the 1950s.
By the late 19th century the British began large-scale immigration projects, mainly from Barbados, in an effort to Anglicise the island, which resulted in a decline in the use of French Creole in the songs so that by the 1930s English Creole became the language of Trinidad Calypso.
Calypso was therefore divided into two classes: the social commentaries, which had songs dealing with politics and community issues ; and the humorous calypso, which told stories of events, real or imagined, with the intent of making the audience laugh.
A reflection of its versatility is that BeauSoleil has also earned a Grammy nomination in the Contemporary Folk category, for the 1999 album Cajunization, with songs that effortlessly span Cajun, Calypso, French ballad, blues and other musical styles.
Calypso singer King Moses ( Jester Hairston ) provided musical bridges by threading plot situations into the lyrics of his songs.
Calypso is a style of music from Trinidad and Tobago, consisting of highly lyrical songs that frequently makes topical comments on the ruling classes and social issues of the day.
Widely considered one of her strongest works, it was praised by critic Robert Christgau for " conveying songs from Calypso Rose and Martha Reeves Vandella into the women's music of the ' 70s.
Calypso Rose, Lord Rhaburn and the Cross Culture Band assisted the acceptance of punta by Belizean Kriol people by singing calypso songs about punta-songs such as " Gumagrugu Watah " and " Punta Rock Eena Babylon ".
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*" Calypso ", a song from Jean-Michel Jarre's album Waiting for Cousteau ( 1990 )
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The timepiece incorporated a sliver of wood from the interior of Cousteau's Calypso research vessel.
After escaping from some goblins who intended to eat him, he discovers that he has been brought on a quest to rescue the wizard Calypso from the evil sorcerer Sordid.
Calypso music, originating in Trinidad, uses syncopated rhythm and topical lyrics and gives its exponents a medium in which to satirise local politics and comment on the issues of the day, while taking nothing away from the general bacchanal.
The British naval vessel HMS Calypso evacuated Prince Andrew's family, with Philip being carried to safety in a cot made from a fruit box.
The Mill Race log flume was removed from the park, and the circular Calypso was relocated to make room for Raptor, the first inverted roller coaster to feature a Cobra Roll.
Calypso is a style of Afro-Caribbean music that originated in Trinidad and Tobago from African and European roots.
While most authorities stress the African roots of calypso, in his 1986 book, Calypso from France to Trinidad: 800 Years of History, that veteran calypsonian, The Roaring Lion ( Rafael de Leon ) asserted that calypso descends from the music of the medieval French troubadours.
( Best known from Homer's epic, the Odyssey, Calypso was a nymph who enticed Odysseus into a cave for seven years.
Soul shouter Gary " US " Bonds released a calypso album Twist up Calypso ( 1962 ) on Legrand records, shortly after returning home from his military post in Port of Spain.
" Wilmoth Houdini: Poor but Ambitious ", in Calypso Classics from Trinidad CD liner notes, pp. 2 – 5.
* Calypso at Midnight and Calypso After Midnight come from a live recording organized by Alan Lomax in New York in 1946.
Derivatives include an uptempo version of Calypso music mixed with musical styles from the Indians in Trinidad and Tobago called Local ( Chutney ) into soca, and a hip-hop-influenced style called rapso both became popular in Trinidad and other islands.
Soca is said to have been invented in 1963 ( see 1963 in music ) by Ras Shorty I's " Clock and Dagger " from Calypso music.
Venezuelan calypso music ( including Calypso de El Callao ), imported from Trinidad in the 1880s by immigrants arriving during a gold rush, has its own distinctive rhythms and lyrical style.
The entry hall is decorated with block-printed wallpaper by Joseph Dufour et Cie of Paris, depicting scenes from Telemachus ' visit to the island of Calypso.
* Mighty Sparrow ( born 1935 ), Calypso musician from Trinidad / West Indies
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