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'''Soca''' is a style of music from [[Trinidad and Tobago]].
Soca is a musical development of traditional Trinidadian [[calypso music|calypso]], through loans from the 1960s onwards from predominantly black popular music in the United States and Caribbean – ([[Soul music|soul]], [[funk]], [[disco]], [[electric blues]], [[hip hop]] and [[rap]], and
[[Cadence-lypso|Cadence]]/[[zouk]] from the French Caribbean islands of [[Dominica]], [[Martinique]] & [[Guadeloupe]], as well as [[reggae]] (specifically from [[deejaying]], known as ''toasting'' in Jamaica in the 1970s), and the more melodic form of modern Jamaican dancehall. Strong elements are also taken from the rhythms of [[chutney music]], which is popular music originated in Trinidad and Tobago's large minority Asian Indians (around 40% of the total population). Soca was originally nothing more complicated than a combination of the melodic and rhythmic lilting sound of calypso and insistent percussion (which is often electronic in recent music), and the East Indian rhythms of chutney music.
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