"Shango: an Afro-Caribbean form of worship, centered mainly on Shango, the Yoruba god of thunder and creativity, and most closely associated with the island of Trinidad"

This is an example of African survival

"The 'rock-and-roll' base of black American music is another aspect of Shango, as is 'boogie
woogie' (piano imitation of the train), and the innumerable spirituals and gospel songs that not
only sing about trains, but become possessed by them. Listen, for example, to use recent examples,
to Aretha Franklin's 'Pullin' (Spirit in the Dark. Atlantic SD 8265) or the Staple Singers' 'I'll
Take You There'

Errol Hill in The Trinidad Carnival, p. 70, comments on the calinda-style performance as follows: "The form seems simple enough on paper, but it is highly effective and dramatic in performance. The rapid alternation from solo voice to chorus creates a feeling of tension. Sometimes the leader will anticipate the end of the chorus line and come in over it; at another time he will appear to drop behind the regular meter in starting his verse, then suddenly spring forward on a syncopated beat. He improvises not only with his lyric but also with the melody; he ornaments his short passage [s] in subtle ways, but is always constrained to return to the original tune by the insistent power of the chorus. It is as though leader and chorus complement and contradict each other simultaneously."

Slinger Francisco (1935), also known as Mighty Sparrow