Venue: Spurlock Museum

Venue Information: Campbell Gallery

Address: 600 S. Gregory St. , Urbana

Cost: Free

posted 1:39 pm Mar 12
modified 6:24 pm Apr 30

Calypso Music in Postwar America explores the major impact of Trinidadian calypso on the popular culture of the United States between 1945 and 1960. Rare photographs and promotional graphics are used to trace calypso in phonograph recordings, song publishing, nightclub acts, concerts, Broadway shows and Hollywood movies.