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22 relations: Bass guitar, Big Drum, Biguine, Boula (music), Bouladjel, Chouval bwa, Code Noir, Conga, Djembe, Drum, French-based creole languages, Guadeloupe, Gwo ka, Kassav', Lewoz, Maraca, Ministry of Culture (France), Music of Guadeloupe, Tubular bells, UNESCO Intangible Cultural Heritage Lists, West Africa, Zouk.
Bass guitar
The bass guitar (also known as electric bass, or bass) is a stringed instrument similar in appearance and construction to an electric guitar, except with a longer neck and scale length, and four to six strings or courses.
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Big Drum
Big Drum is a genre and a musical instrument from the Windward Islands.
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Biguine
Biguine is a rhythm-centric style of music that originated in Guadeloupe and Martinique in the 19th century.
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Boula (music)
The word boula can refer to at least four different drums played in the Caribbean music area.
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Bouladjel
Bouladjèl (also sometimes Boulagèl or Bannjogita) is a vocal percussion technique practiced on the Caribbean island of Guadeloupe.
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Chouval bwa
Chouval bwa is a kind of folk music originated on the slave plantations of Martinique.
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Code Noir
The Code Noir (Black Code) was a decree originally passed by France's King Louis XIV in 1685.
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Conga
The conga, also known as tumbadora, is a tall, narrow, single-headed drum from Cuba.
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Djembe
A djembe or jembe (from Malinke jembe) is a rope-tuned skin-covered goblet drum played with bare hands, originally from West Africa.
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Drum
The drum is a member of the percussion group of musical instruments.
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French-based creole languages
A French creole, or French-based creole language, is a creole language (contact language with native speakers) for which French is the lexifier.
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Guadeloupe
Guadeloupe (Antillean Creole: Gwadloup) is an insular region of France located in the Leeward Islands, part of the Lesser Antilles in the Caribbean.
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Gwo ka
Gwo ka is a French creole term for big drum.
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Kassav'
Kassav' is a Caribbean band formed in Guadeloupe in 1979.
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Lewoz
Lewoz are the traditional rural musical performances in Martinique and Guadeloupe, as opposed to the modernized gwo ka moderne.
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Maraca
Maraca, sometimes called rumba shaker, shac-shac, and various other names, is a rattle which appears in many genres of Caribbean and Latin music.
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Ministry of Culture (France)
The Ministry of Culture (Ministère de la Culture) is the ministry of the Government of France in charge of national museums and the monuments historiques.
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Music of Guadeloupe
The music of Guadeloupe encompasses a large popular music industry, which gained in international renown after the success of zouk music in the later 20th century.
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Tubular bells
Tubular bells (also known as chimes) are musical instruments in the percussion family.
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UNESCO Intangible Cultural Heritage Lists
UNESCO established its Lists of Intangible Cultural Heritage with the aim of ensuring better protection of important intangible cultural heritages worldwide and the awareness of their significance.
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West Africa
West Africa, also called Western Africa and the West of Africa, is the westernmost region of Africa.
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Zouk
Zouk is a fast jump-up carnival beat originating from the Caribbean islands of Guadeloupe and Martinique, popularized by the French Antillean band Kassav' in the 1980s.
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References
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gwo_ka
