Usually means: Traditional Caribbean music with storytelling.
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  1. calypsoes: Merriam-Webster
  2. calypsoes: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  3. calypsoes: Wiktionary
  4. Calypsoes: Dictionary.com
  5. Calypsoes: TheFreeDictionary.com

(Note: See calypso as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (Calypso)

noun:  A style of Caribbean music that originated in Trinidad and Tobago during the early to the mid-19th century and spread to the rest of the Caribbean Antilles and Venezuela by the mid-20th century. Its rhythms can be traced back to West African Kaiso and the arrival of French planters and their slaves from the French Antilles in the 18th century.
verb:  (intransitive) To perform calypso.
noun:  A bulbous bog orchid of the genus Calypso, Calypso bulbosa
noun:  A light blue color.
noun:  (Greek mythology) A sea nymph who entertained Odysseus on her island, Ogygia, for seven years.
noun:  (astronomy) The eighth moon of Saturn.
noun:  (astronomy) 53 Kalypso, a main belt asteroid; not to be confused with the Saturnian moon mentioned above.
noun:  Alternative letter-case form of calypso [A style of Caribbean music that originated in Trinidad and Tobago during the early to the mid-19th century and spread to the rest of the Caribbean Antilles and Venezuela by the mid-20th century. Its rhythms can be traced back to West African Kaiso and the arrival of French planters and their slaves from the French Antilles in the 18th century.]
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