Bouyon (pronunciation: boo-your) is a genre of Dominican music that originated in Dominica in the late 1980s. Prominent bouyon groups include Windward...
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elements of the music of jing ping bands, as well as ragga-style vocals. Bouyon influenced a certain style of soca known as bouyon soca. Bouyon soca typically...
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Bouyon soca is a fusion-genre of bouyon music originating from Dominica and soca music originating from Trinidad & Tobago and the other English speaking...
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styles including ska, reggae, dancehall, dub, grime, hip hop, soca and bouyon music. The combination of singing and toasting is known as singjaying. In the...
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kompa, zouk and rock and roll. Dominica's own popular music industry has created a form called bouyon, which combines elements from several styles and has...
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development of our people". Bouyon soca typically blends old bouyon music rhythms from the 90s' and soca music. In recent years Bouyon soca has become popular...
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and Gil Semedo, the African artist Kaysha. Bouyon (Boo-Yon) is a form of popular music of Dominica. Bouyon was developed in the 1980s by bands like WCK...
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calypso, soca, kompa, zouk, bouyon, reggae and merengue. Sint Maarten has a well-known Carnival tradition featuring music and dance, held in mid-April...
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Other genres include: Bélé Calypso music Bouyon music Cadence-lypso Jing-Ping Kadans Mini-jazz Quadrille Zouk soca music Bachata Bolero Latin Rap Merengue...
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November 1993). Zouk: world music in the West Indies. ISBN 9780226310428. Retrieved August 10, 2010. "YouTube:bouyon gwada". bouyon gwada. Archived from the...
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Culture of Dominica (section Music)
On modern Dominica, Chanté mas and lapo kabrit has become a part of bouyon music. Each year, Dominicans celebrate the Catholic Carnival, a festival held...
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Tropicalia Música sertaneja Samba Pagode Samba rock Caribbean Baithak Gana Bouyon Cadence-lypso Calypso Cha-cha-chá Chutney Chutney soca Chutney parang Compas...
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Canadian province of Quebec. Bouyon Bouyon (Boo-Yon) is a form of popular music of Dominica, also known as jump up music in Guadeloupe and Martinique...
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Ragga (redirect from Raggamuffin music)
multinational single to feature the word "ragga" in its title. Reggae Ska Bouyon-muffin Bhangragga Jamaican Patois, the language of the distinctive vocals...
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Jump Up (redirect from Jump up music)
Jump Up may refer to: Jump up, a subgenre of the Bouyon music of Dominica, Martinique and Guadeloupe Jump-up (drum and bass), a subgenre of drum and bass...
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French hip hop (redirect from French rap music)
Caribbean music such as "derbuka from North Africa, djembe from Senegal, gwo ka drums from Guadeloupe, bèlè drums from Martinique and Dominica, zouk, bouyon music...
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Carnival celebrations, the Calypso Monarch music competition, the Queen of Carnival Beauty Pageant, and bouyon music bands. Celebrations last for the Monday...
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Latin America (section Music and dance)
drums alongside lyrics usually sung in French Antillean Creole Kwéyòl, Bouyon music is a mixture of Soca, Zouk, and traditional genres native to Dominica...
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Culture of Martinique (section Music)
caribbean music. From a language perspective, Bouyon draws on English and Kwéyòl. Bouyon music is popular across the Caribbean, and is known as "bouyon gwada"...
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ping, Chante mas and lapo kabwit rhythms, which would later be labelled bouyon, a genre which they are credited with creating in the late 1980s. WCK or...
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Semedo, the African artist Kaysha. Bouyon (Boo-Yon) is a form of popular music of Dominica, also known as jump up music in Guadeloupe and Martinique. The...
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Jing ping (category Music of Dominica)
ISBN 978-1-58843-393-0 Crask, Paul (2008). Dominica. Bradt Travel Guides. p. 15. ISBN 9781841622170. "Bouyon Music". Music in Dominica. Retrieved December 3, 2005....
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Calypso is a style of Caribbean music that originated in Trinidad and Tobago during the early to mid-19th century and spread to the rest of the Caribbean...
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forms played at the festival include Cadence-lypso, Konpa, Zouk, Soukous, Bouyon, Zydeco (from the US state of Louisiana). The festival is managed by the...
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Chanté mas (category 19th-century music genres)
Carnival celebrations, the calypso Monarch music competition, the queen of Carnival Beauty Pageant and bouyon music bands. Celebrations last for the Monday...
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music (Caribbean Hindustani: चटनी संगीत, 𑂒𑂗𑂢𑂲 𑂮𑂑𑂹𑂏𑂲𑂞, چٹنی موسیقی) is a fusion genre of Indian folk music, specifically Bhojpuri folk music...
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Fox Fuse (category Music companies of the United States)
Fox Fuse is a leading digital music label for Caribbean music and is the largest label worldwide for soca and chutney music. Based in Tampa, Florida (previously...
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Bélé (category 18th-century music genres)
African language word. Biguine Bouyon music Chouval bwa Edmond Mondesir Rara music Guilbault, Jocelyne (1993). Zouk: World Music in the West Indies. University...
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The music of Trinidad and Tobago is best known for its calypso music, soca music, chutney music, and steelpan. Calypso's internationally noted performances...
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languages Atlas of Dominica Bayou of Pigs Bird Rock, Dominica Boiling Lake Bouyon music British Leeward Islands British West Indies Federation Canefield Airport...
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