This might be contentious, but I did say a few things some posts up about being able to pick up accents after being around people from a different country for a while. So I imagine that after being in Trinidad for a number of years (and if I was lucky, being surrounded by only Trinidadians for that period) my accent would be so different that when I returned to Australia, people would say "You have a Caribbean accent'. So my accent would be different to Australians, and I would be totally unconscious of it unless it was pointed out to me. So if you're saying my Australian accent would be funny in calypso, it would depend on how long I'd been there and how much I was actually talking with Trinidadians. "Mental link", "psychic heritage"- possibly not the best choices of words, but I was trying to describe the situation of being drawn to another culture that you are not connected to by ethnicity or in my case, nationality. And having "the status of an "in the traditional style type revivalist" is the closest I'd get to the tradition- if I was a "traditional style type revivalist", trained by Trinidad calypsonians, wouldn't you say that's a good thing? After all, I'd be learning in the tradition, be accepted in the tradition.