Music of Trinidad and Tobago
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The music of Trinidad and Tobago is best known for calypso music, including 1950s stars Lord Kitchener and Mighty Sparrow. Other forms of music include Carnival songs like lavway and leggos, as well as bongo music (which originated at wakes). The modern music history of Trinidad and Tobago began with the arrival of Spanish settlers and African slaves who decimated the native Arawak population, enclosing them in work villages called encomiendas, which were controlled by the Roman Catholic priesthood. The Arawak population declined precipitously, and the Trinidadian government responded by welco...
The music of Trinidad and Tobago is best known for calypso music, including 1950s stars Lord Kitchener and Mighty Sparrow. Other forms of music include Carnival songs like lavway and leggos, as well as bongo music (which originated at wakes). The modern music history of Trinidad and Tobago began with the arrival of Spanish settlers and African slaves who decimated the native Arawak population, enclosing them in work villages called encomiendas, which were controlled by the Roman Catholic priesthood. The Arawak population declined precipitously, and the Trinidadian government responded by welcoming white and non- slave African Roman Catholic settlers. French Creoles came in large numbers, from Saint Vincent, Grenada, Dominica and Martinique, establishing a local community before Trinidad and Tobago were taken from Spain by the British. The slaves were forbidden to talk to each other (in any case, they spoken dozens of different languages, so communication was inherently difficult). A creole culture was formed, combining elements of hundreds of African ethnic groups, native inhabitants of the islands, French, British and Spanish colonizers.
