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Folk music and Soca music

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Difference between Folk music and Soca music

Folk music vs. Soca music

Folk music includes both traditional music and the genre that evolved from it during the 20th century folk revival. Soca music (also defined by Lord Shorty, its inventor, as the "Soul Of Calypso") is a genre of music that originated within a marginalized subculture in Trinidad and Tobago in the early 1970s, and developed into a range of styles by the 1980s and later.

Similarities between Folk music and Soca music

Folk music and Soca music have 5 things in common (in Unionpedia): Acoustic guitar, Calypso music, Percussion instrument, Singing, Zouk.

Acoustic guitar

An acoustic guitar is a guitar that produces sound acoustically by transmitting the vibration of the strings to the air—as opposed to relying on electronic amplification (see electric guitar).

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Calypso music

Calypso is a style of Afro-Caribbean music that originated in Trinidad and Tobago during the early to mid-19th century and eventually spread to the rest of the Caribbean Antilles and Venezuela by the mid-20th century.

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Percussion instrument

A percussion instrument is a musical instrument that is sounded by being struck or scraped by a beater (including attached or enclosed beaters or rattles); struck, scraped or rubbed by hand; or struck against another similar instrument.

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Singing

Singing is the act of producing musical sounds with the voice and augments regular speech by the use of sustained tonality, rhythm, and a variety of vocal techniques.

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Zouk

Zouk is a fast jump-up carnival beat originating from the Caribbean islands of Guadeloupe and Martinique, popularized by the French Antillean band Kassav' in the 1980s.

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Folk music and Soca music Comparison

Folk music has 609 relations, while Soca music has 93. As they have in common 5, the Jaccard index is 0.71% = 5 / (609 + 93).

References

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