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Music of Martinique

Index Music of Martinique

The music of Martinique has a heritage which is intertwined with that of its sister island, Guadeloupe. [1]

78 relations: Accordion, Antillean Creole, Bamboo, Bélé, Bell, Biguine, Bill Thomas, Black Roots (band), Branford Marsalis, Cadence rampa, Cadence-lypso, Call and response, Call and response (music), Calypso music, Canboulay, Carousel, Chouval bwa, Clarinet, Claude Germany, Compas, Dédé Saint Prix, Dominica, Edith Lefel, Edmond Mondesir, Exile One, Experience 7, Flute, France, French West Indies, French-based creole languages, Funk, Gibson Brothers, Gil Semedo, Gramacks, Guadeloupe, Guitar, Gwo ka, Haiti, Hip hop music, Horn section, Jazz, Jing ping, Kassav', Kaysha, Kazoo, Lesser Antilles, List of Caribbean carnivals around the world, List of Caribbean idiophones, List of Caribbean membranophones, Mantra, ..., Maraca, Marce et Tumpak, Martinique, Masquerade ball, Mazurka, Méringue, Milestone, Mini-jazz, Music of Dominica, Music of France, Music of Latin America, Ophelia Marie, Percussion instrument, Quadrille, Rattle (percussion instrument), Rock and roll, Saint-Pierre, Martinique, Slavery, Soul music, Suzanna Lubrano, Synthesizer, Tabou Combo, Tambour, Trombone, Violin, Windward Caribbean Kulture, World War II, Zouk. Expand index (28 more) »

Accordion

Accordions (from 19th-century German Akkordeon, from Akkord—"musical chord, concord of sounds") are a family of box-shaped musical instruments of the bellows-driven free-reed aerophone type, colloquially referred to as a squeezebox.

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Antillean Creole

Antillean Creole is a French-based creole, which is primarily spoken in the Lesser Antilles.

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Bamboo

The bamboos are evergreen perennial flowering plants in the subfamily Bambusoideae of the grass family Poaceae.

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Bélé

A bélé is a folk dance and music from Martinique, Dominica, Haiti, and Guadeloupe.

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Bell

A bell is a directly struck idiophone percussion instrument.

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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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Bill Thomas

William Marshall Thomas (born December 6, 1941) is an American politician.

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Black Roots (band)

Black Roots are a roots reggae band from the St. Paul's area of Bristol, England formed in 1979.

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Branford Marsalis

Branford Marsalis (born August 26, 1960) is an American saxophonist, composer and bandleader.

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Cadence rampa

Cadence rampa (Creole: kadans ranpa) or simply kadans, is a dance music and modern méringue popularized in the Caribbean by the virtuoso Haitian sax player Webert Sicot in the early 1960s. Cadence rampa was one of the sources of cadence-lypso. Genres: Caribbean and Latin America.

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Cadence-lypso

Cadence-lypso is a fusion of cadence rampa from Haiti and calypso from mainly the English speaking countries of the Caribbean.

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Call and response

Call and response is a form of interaction between a speaker and an audience in which the speaker's statements ("calls") are punctuated by responses from the listeners.

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Call and response (music)

In music, a call and response is a succession of two distinct phrases usually written in different parts of the music, where the second phrase is heard as a direct commentary on or in response to the first.

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Calypso music

Calypso is a style of Afro-Caribbean music that originated in Trinidad and Tobago during the early to mid-19th century and eventually spread to the rest of the Caribbean Antilles and Venezuela by the mid-20th century.

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Canboulay

Canboulay (from the French cannes brulées, meaning burnt cane) is a precursor to Trinidad and Tobago Carnival.

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Carousel

A carousel (American English: from French carrousel and Italian carosello), roundabout (British English), or merry-go-round, is a type of amusement ride consisting of a rotating circular platform with seats for riders.

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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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Clarinet

The clarinet is a musical-instrument family belonging to the group known as the woodwind instruments.

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Claude Germany

Claude Germany is a French Antillean musician, known as a player of chouval bwa.

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Compas

Compas (konpa), or kompa, is a dance music and modern méringue in Haiti with African roots.

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Dédé Saint Prix

Dédé Saint Prix (born 10 February 1953) is a French from Martinique, singer of traditional chouval bwa music.

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Dominica

Dominica (Island Carib), officially the Commonwealth of Dominica, is an island republic in the West Indies.

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Edith Lefel

Edith Lefel (November 1963, in Cayenne, French Guiana - 20 January 2003, in Dreux, France) was a French-based singer.

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Edmond Mondesir

Edmond Mondesir was born in Fort-de-France (Martinique) in 1948.

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Exile One

Exile One is a cadence musical group founded by Gordon Henderson in the 1970s with musicians invited over from Dominica, to be based in Guadeloupe.

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Experience 7

Experience 7 was a Guadeloupean kadans band formed in the mid-1970s, led by Guy Houllier and Yves Honore.

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Flute

The flute is a family of musical instruments in the woodwind group.

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France

France, officially the French Republic (République française), is a sovereign state whose territory consists of metropolitan France in Western Europe, as well as several overseas regions and territories.

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French West Indies

The term French West Indies or French Antilles (Antilles françaises) refers to the seven territories currently under French sovereignty in the Antilles islands of the Caribbean.

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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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Funk

Funk is a music genre that originated in African American communities in the mid-1960s when African American musicians created a rhythmic, danceable new form of music through a mixture of soul music, jazz, and rhythm and blues (R&B).

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Gibson Brothers

The Gibson Brothers are a France-based musical group, who had their greatest success during the disco boom of the late 1970s.

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Gil Semedo

Gil Semedo Moreira (born October 25, 1974), better known by his stage name Gil Semedo, is a Cape Verdean recording artist, songwriter, businessman, and record producer.

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Gramacks

Grammacks was a Cadence-lypso group from Dominica.

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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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Guitar

The guitar is a fretted musical instrument that usually has six strings.

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Gwo ka

Gwo ka is a French creole term for big drum.

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Haiti

Haiti (Haïti; Ayiti), officially the Republic of Haiti and formerly called Hayti, is a sovereign state located on the island of Hispaniola in the Greater Antilles archipelago of the Caribbean Sea.

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Hip hop music

Hip hop music, also called hip-hopMerriam-Webster Dictionary entry on hip-hop, retrieved from: A subculture especially of inner-city black youths who are typically devotees of rap music; the stylized rhythmic music that commonly accompanies rap; also rap together with this music.

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Horn section

A horn section is a group of musicians playing horns.

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Jazz

Jazz is a music genre that originated in the African-American communities of New Orleans, United States, in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, and developed from roots in blues and ragtime.

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Jing ping

Jing Ping is a kind of folk music originated on the slave plantations of Dominica, also known colloquially as an accordion band.

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Kassav'

Kassav' is a Caribbean band formed in Guadeloupe in 1979.

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Kaysha

Edward Mokolo Jr., better known by stage name Kaysha, (born in Kinshasa on January 22, 1974) is a singer/rapper and producer.

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Kazoo

The kazoo is a musical instrument that adds a "buzzing" timbral quality to a player's voice when the player vocalizes into it.

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Lesser Antilles

The Lesser Antilles are a group of islands in the Caribbean Sea.

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List of Caribbean carnivals around the world

Caribbean Carnival is the term used in the English speaking world for a series of events Throughout almost the whole year that take place in many of the Caribbean islands annually and worldwide.

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List of Caribbean idiophones

Historically, idiophones (percussion instruments without membranes or strings) have been widespread throughout the Caribbean music area, which encompasses the islands and coasts of the Caribbean Sea.

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List of Caribbean membranophones

This is a list of membranophones used in the Caribbean music area, including the islands of the Caribbean Sea, as well as the musics of Guyana, Suriname, French Guiana, Belize, Garifuna music, and Bermuda.

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Mantra

A "mantra" ((Sanskrit: मन्त्र)) is a sacred utterance, a numinous sound, a syllable, word or phonemes, or group of words in Sanskrit believed by practitioners to have psychological and spiritual powers.

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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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Marce et Tumpak

Marce et Tumpak is a Martinican pop band that uses elements of both traditional and modern music.

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Martinique

Martinique is an insular region of France located in the Lesser Antilles of the West Indies in the eastern Caribbean Sea, with a land area of and a population of 385,551 inhabitants as of January 2013.

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Masquerade ball

A masquerade ball (or bal masqué) is an event in which the participants attend in costume wearing a mask.

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Mazurka

The mazurka (in Polish mazurek, plural mazurki) is a Polish folk dance in triple meter, usually at a lively tempo, and with "strong accents unsystematically placed on the second or third beat".

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Méringue

Méringue (mereng), also called méringue lente or méringue de salon (slow or salon méringue), is a dance music and national symbol in Haiti.

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Milestone

A milestone is one of a series of numbered markers placed along a road or boundary at intervals of one mile or occasionally, parts of a mile.

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Mini-jazz

Mini-jazz (mini-djaz) is a reduced méringue-compas band format of the mid-1960s characterized by the rock band formula of two guitars, one bass, and drum-conga-cowbell; some use an alto sax or a full horn section, while others use a keyboard, accordion or lead guitar.

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Music of Dominica

The music of Dominica includes a variety of genres including all the popular genres of the world.

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Music of France

The music of France reflects a diverse array of styles.

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Music of Latin America

The music of Latin America refers to music originating from Latin America, namely the Romance-speaking countries and territories of the Americas and the Caribbean south of the United States.

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Ophelia Marie

Ophelia Marie is a popular singer of cadence-lypso from Dominica in the 1980s.

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Percussion instrument

A percussion instrument is a musical instrument that is sounded by being struck or scraped by a beater (including attached or enclosed beaters or rattles); struck, scraped or rubbed by hand; or struck against another similar instrument.

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Quadrille

The quadrille is a dance that was fashionable in late 18th- and 19th-century Europe and its colonies.

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Rattle (percussion instrument)

A rattle is a type of percussion instrument which produces a sound when shaken.

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Rock and roll

Rock and roll (often written as rock & roll or rock 'n' roll) is a genre of popular music that originated and evolved in the United States during the late 1940s and early 1950sJim Dawson and Steve Propes, What Was the First Rock'n'Roll Record (1992),.

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Saint-Pierre, Martinique

Saint-Pierre is a town and commune of France's Caribbean overseas department of Martinique, founded in 1635 by Pierre Belain d'Esnambuc.

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Slavery

Slavery is any system in which principles of property law are applied to people, allowing individuals to own, buy and sell other individuals, as a de jure form of property.

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Soul music

Soul music (often referred to simply as soul) is a popular music genre that originated in the African American community in the United States in the late 1950s and early 1960s.

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Suzanna Lubrano

Suzanna Lubrano (born November 10, 1975) is a Cape Verdean Zouk singer based in Rotterdam.

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Synthesizer

A synthesizer (often abbreviated as synth, also spelled synthesiser) is an electronic musical instrument that generates electric signals that are converted to sound through instrument amplifiers and loudspeakers or headphones.

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Tabou Combo

Tabou Combo is a Haitian compas band that was founded in 1968 in Pétion-Ville, a suburb of Port-au-Prince.

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Tambour

In classical architecture, a tambour (Fr.: "drum") is the inverted bell of the Corinthian capital around which are carved acanthus leaves for decoration.

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Trombone

The trombone is a musical instrument in the brass family.

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Violin

The violin, also known informally as a fiddle, is a wooden string instrument in the violin family.

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Windward Caribbean Kulture

The WCK Band (Windward Caribbean Kulture) was formed in 1988 in Dominica.

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World War II

World War II (often abbreviated to WWII or WW2), also known as the Second World War, was a global war that lasted from 1939 to 1945, although conflicts reflecting the ideological clash between what would become the Allied and Axis blocs began earlier.

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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/Music_of_Martinique

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