It's a little lost to history these days, but "Rum and Coca Cola" was an enormous hit for the Andrew Sisters in 1945. Their version offered to postwar Americans a singable, dance-able appropriation of Trinidadian calypso--just as Caribbean travel …
Rum and Coca Cola
Workin’ for the Yankee Dollar
Workin' For the Yankee Dollar was created by Deanne Achong in Vancouver, Canada but concerns the cultural and military invasion of Trinidad by the US in the 1940's. The book illustrates and annotates the appropriation of Lord Invader's (Rupert …