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"ref": "2014, Marlon James, A Brief History of Seven Killings, Oneworld Publications (2015), page 684",
"text": "—Carnival? With soca music?",
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"A genre of music that originated in Trinidad and Tobago in the early 1970s and developed into a range of styles during the 1980s and after which primarily includes influences of African and Indian rhythms."
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"lang": "Japanese",
"roman": "soka",
"sense": "a style of popular dance music from the West Indies",
"word": "ソカ"
},
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"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "sóka",
"sense": "a style of popular dance music from the West Indies",
"tags": [
"feminine"
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"word": "со́ка"
}
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"word": "ソカ"
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