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Music
Here, music as dance occupy a significant place in the culture and the
traditions.
It is a mixture of sounds and rhythms coming from French, English, Spanish and
African music that give its richness.
The music begins to develop in the XVIIth Century, on the same principle as the
creole language.
Interbreeding of European and African musics, it produced various styles
guided by drums, at various times.
During the Slavery existed the bamboulas, collective trance around Gwo-Ka the
creole drum. Today, of course, festivals like the one of Sainte Anne in
July (festival of Gwo-ka) perpetuate this tradition.
Guy
Konket and the group " Ka " is representative of the Gwo-ka style,
music with the drum born in the heat of the sugar cane fields at the time of
slavery. It is a rural music, in which the soloist gives the rhythm, taken again
by the other musicians. Thus, the drums create a music. Drum of the slaves, Ka
became the symbol of a call to the revolt, of the resistance of a whole people
to cultural alienation.
Between
the two World Wars the beguine was invented, influenced by the New Orleans
rhythm of the jazz orchestras.
It is danced in a tonic or lascive way in the balls.
Zouk has become today,
since 1980, the West-Indian music. Previously, the zouk was a popular festival
in the countryside. Bands as Zouk Machine, Malavoi and Kassav made it possible
to export this musical genre in the whole world.
Each year various musical festivals highlight the West-Indian music
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