Zouk
The Antilles on the dance floor
Zouk ti musika a sala dagiti Pranses nga Aquiles Ł Guadeloupe ken Martinique nga inaramid ti banda a Kssav idi rugrugi ti dekada 1980 ken masansan a makanta iti Antillean Creole. Naglaon dayta iti musika a Caribbean Creole kadagiti agbuybuya iti intero nga Africa, Europa ken Latin America.
Origin & history
Kassav' formed in 1979 and built zouk out of Guadeloupean and Martinican carnival traditions, gwo ka and biguine, with the studio technology of the time.
Sung in Antillean Creole rather than French, zouk became one of the most widely travelled Creole-language musics in the world, with a particularly deep following in West and Central Africa.
Dagitibleable artist
Ti banda a Guadeloupean - Tirtinican a napadayawan iti panangpataudna iti zouk idi arinunos ti dekada 1970.
Martinican a kumakanta iti Kassav, maysa kadagiti timek a nangdepinar iti klase.
Dagiti Saludsod & Sungbat
What is zouk?+
Zouk is the dance music of Guadeloupe and Martinique, created by the band Kassav' in the early 1980s and sung mostly in Antillean Creole.
What language is zouk sung in?+
Mostly Antillean Creole, which is one reason the music travelled so widely through other Creole-speaking regions.
Is zouk the same as konpa?+
No. Konpa is Haitian and older; zouk comes from the French Antilles and was shaped in part by Haitian konpa among other Caribbean styles. They are neighbours, not the same genre.