Chutney soca is commonly perceived to be a fusion of chutney, an Indo-Trinidadian folk music performed during Hindu weddings, and soca, which is Afro-Trinidadian fête music that developed through a mixture of calypso with ...

Four genres of Indo-Trinidadian dance—folk, film, chutney and classical—have opened spaces in which gender (as well as ethnic, national and class) identities are negotiated and chosen from an increasing variety of options. ...

Steelbands participating in this year's Pan Chutney Festival stand to win up to $100,000 in prizes, but none of them can play "Jahaaji Bhai" which the organisers have ruled to be pure soca and not "chutney" for the purposes ...

In December 1995, I arrived for the very first time in Port-of-Spain, Trinidad, to study chutney music——a fusion of Hindi religious folks songs and calypso and soca rhythms. From what I had been reading, the emergence of ...