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The music
Music

Music is an art form whose media is sound organized in time. Common elements of music are pitch , rhythm , dynamics , and the sonic qualities of timbre and texture ....
 of the Caribbean
Caribbean

The Caribbean is a region consisting of the Caribbean Sea, its islands , and the surrounding coasts. The region is located southeast of the Gulf of Mexico and Northern America, east of Central America, and to the north of South America....
 is a diverse grouping of musical genres. They are each syntheses of Africa
Music of Africa

The music of Africa is as vast and varied as the continent's many Regions of Africa, List of African countries and ethnic groups. Although there is no distinctly pan-African music, there are common forms of musical expression, especially within Regions of Africa....
n, Europe
Europe

Europe is, conventionally, one of the world's seven continents. Comprising the westernmost peninsula of Eurasia, Europe is generally divided from Asia to its east by the water divide of the Ural Mountains, the Ural , the Caspian Sea, and by the Caucasus Mountains to the southeast....
an, India
Music of India

The music of India includes multiple varieties of folk music, popular music, pop music, and Indian classical music. India's classical music tradition, including Carnatic music and Hindustani music, has a history panning millennia and, developed over several eras, it remains fundamental to the lives of Indians today as sources of religio...
n and native influences. Some of the styles to gain wide popularity outside of the Caribbean include reggae
Reggae

Reggae is a music genre first developed in Jamaica in the late 1960s.While sometimes used in a broader sense to refer to most types of Music of Jamaica, the term reggae more properly denotes a particular music style that originated following on the development of ska and rocksteady....
, zouk
Zouk

Zouk is a style of rhythmic music originating from the islands of Guadeloupe, Martinique, Haiti, Dominica . Zouk means "party" or "festival" in the local creole language of French with English influences....
, salsa
Salsa music

Salsa music is a diverse and predominantly Latin American Caribbean music genre that is popular across Latin America and among Latinos abroad that was brought to international fame by Puerto Rican people....
, calypso
Calypso music

Calypso is a style of Afro-Caribbean music which originated in Trinidad and Tobago in the beginning of the 20th century....
, reggaeton
Reggaeton

Reggaeton is a form of urban contemporary that became popular with Latin American youth in the early 1990s. After its mainstream exposure in 2004, it spread to North American, European and Asian audiences....
 and punta
Punta

Traditional Punta music is a form of Garifuna music dance music performed during celebration or festive occasions. Contemporary punta or Punta rock music has evolved in the last 30 years primarily by Garifuna musicians from Belize and Honduras, but also Guatemala....
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The music
Music

Music is an art form whose media is sound organized in time. Common elements of music are pitch , rhythm , dynamics , and the sonic qualities of timbre and texture ....
 of the Caribbean
Caribbean

The Caribbean is a region consisting of the Caribbean Sea, its islands , and the surrounding coasts. The region is located southeast of the Gulf of Mexico and Northern America, east of Central America, and to the north of South America....
 is a diverse grouping of musical genres. They are each syntheses of Africa
Music of Africa

The music of Africa is as vast and varied as the continent's many Regions of Africa, List of African countries and ethnic groups. Although there is no distinctly pan-African music, there are common forms of musical expression, especially within Regions of Africa....
n, Europe
Europe

Europe is, conventionally, one of the world's seven continents. Comprising the westernmost peninsula of Eurasia, Europe is generally divided from Asia to its east by the water divide of the Ural Mountains, the Ural , the Caspian Sea, and by the Caucasus Mountains to the southeast....
an, India
Music of India

The music of India includes multiple varieties of folk music, popular music, pop music, and Indian classical music. India's classical music tradition, including Carnatic music and Hindustani music, has a history panning millennia and, developed over several eras, it remains fundamental to the lives of Indians today as sources of religio...
n and native influences. Some of the styles to gain wide popularity outside of the Caribbean include reggae
Reggae

Reggae is a music genre first developed in Jamaica in the late 1960s.While sometimes used in a broader sense to refer to most types of Music of Jamaica, the term reggae more properly denotes a particular music style that originated following on the development of ska and rocksteady....
, zouk
Zouk

Zouk is a style of rhythmic music originating from the islands of Guadeloupe, Martinique, Haiti, Dominica . Zouk means "party" or "festival" in the local creole language of French with English influences....
, salsa
Salsa music

Salsa music is a diverse and predominantly Latin American Caribbean music genre that is popular across Latin America and among Latinos abroad that was brought to international fame by Puerto Rican people....
, calypso
Calypso music

Calypso is a style of Afro-Caribbean music which originated in Trinidad and Tobago in the beginning of the 20th century....
, reggaeton
Reggaeton

Reggaeton is a form of urban contemporary that became popular with Latin American youth in the early 1990s. After its mainstream exposure in 2004, it spread to North American, European and Asian audiences....
 and punta
Punta

Traditional Punta music is a form of Garifuna music dance music performed during celebration or festive occasions. Contemporary punta or Punta rock music has evolved in the last 30 years primarily by Garifuna musicians from Belize and Honduras, but also Guatemala....
. Caribbean, Central America
Central America

Central America is a central geography region of the Americas. It is the southernmost, isthmus portion of the North American continent, which connects with South America on the southeast....
n and South America
South America

South America is the southern continent of the Americas, situated entirely in the Western Hemisphere and mostly in the Southern Hemisphere, with a relatively small portion in the Northern Hemisphere....
n music.
  • Antigua and Barbuda
    Antigua and Barbuda

    Antigua and Barbuda is an island nation located on the eastern boundary of the Caribbean Sea with the Atlantic Ocean. As its name suggests, it consists of two major islands Antigua and Barbuda as well as a number of smaller islets....
    • Soca
      Soca music

      Soca is a form of dance music that originated in Trinidad and Tobago from calypso music. It originally combined the melodic lilting sound of calypso with insistent percussion and local chutney music....
    • Calypso
      Calypso music

      Calypso is a style of Afro-Caribbean music which originated in Trinidad and Tobago in the beginning of the 20th century....
    • Pan music
      Steelpan

      Steelpans is a musical instrument and a form of music originating from Trinidad. Steelpan musicians are called pannists....
  • The Bahamas
    The Bahamas

    The Bahamas, officially the Commonwealth of The Bahamas, is an independent, sovereign, English language-speaking country consisting of two thousand cays and seven hundred islands that form an archipelago....
    • Junkanoo
      Junkanoo

      Junkanoo is a street parade with music, which occurs in many towns across The Bahamas every Boxing Day , New Year's Day and, more recently, in the summer on the island of Grand Bahama....
    • Rake and Scrape
    • Goombay
      Goombay

      Goombay is a form of music of the Bahamas and a drum used to create it. Its most famous practitioner in modern times was Blake Alphonso Higgs, who performed at the Nassau International Airport for many years....
  • Barbados
    Barbados

    Barbados , situated just east of the Caribbean Sea, is an independent Continental Island-island nation in the western Atlantic Ocean. Located at roughly 13? North of the equator and 59? West of the prime meridian, it is considered a part of the Lesser Antilles....
    • Calypso
      Calypso music

      Calypso is a style of Afro-Caribbean music which originated in Trinidad and Tobago in the beginning of the 20th century....
    • Calypso jazz
      Calypso jazz

      Calypso jazz is a style of music and improvisation that combines elements of calypso music with elements of traditional jazz....
    • Pan music
      Steelpan

      Steelpans is a musical instrument and a form of music originating from Trinidad. Steelpan musicians are called pannists....
    • Ringbang
    • Soca
      Soca music

      Soca is a form of dance music that originated in Trinidad and Tobago from calypso music. It originally combined the melodic lilting sound of calypso with insistent percussion and local chutney music....
    • Spouge
      Spouge

      Spouge is a style of Music of Barbados created by Jackie Opel in the 1960s. It is said to be primarily a fusion of Jamaican ska with Trinidadian calypso, but is also influenced by a wide variety of musics from the British Isles and United States, include sea shanty, hymns and spiritual s....
    • Tuk
      Tuk

      Tuk and similar can mean:*Tuk band, a kind of Barbadian musical ensemble, which plays tuk music*T.U.K. , a British boot and shoe manufacturer...
  • Belize
    Belize

    Belize , formerly British Honduras, is a country in Central America. Once part of the Maya civilization, and very briefly the Spanish Empire, it was most recently affiliated with the British Empire, prior to gaining its independence in 1981....
    • Punta
    • Punta Rock
      Punta rock

      Punta rock or Belizean punta is a form of the traditional punta rhythm of the Garifuna people of Belize.Punta rock is distinctive from tradtional punta in that the language and concepts are more adapted to the general Belizean identity....
    • Brukdown
      Brukdown

      Brukdown is a musical genre of music of Belize. Its best-known performer and innovator, Wilfred Peters is regarded as a Belizean national icon....
    • Garifuna music
      Garifuna music

      Garifuna music is quite different from the rest of Central America. The most famous form is punta. Its associated musical style, which has the dancers move their hips from right to left in a circular motion....
    • Reggae
      Reggae

      Reggae is a music genre first developed in Jamaica in the late 1960s.While sometimes used in a broader sense to refer to most types of Music of Jamaica, the term reggae more properly denotes a particular music style that originated following on the development of ska and rocksteady....
    • Roots reggae
      Roots reggae

      Roots reggae is a subgenre of reggae that concerns itself with the life of the ghetto sufferer, and the rural poor. Lyrical themes include poverty, social issues, resistance to government oppression, repatriation, and Rastafari movement....
    • Lovers rock
      Lovers rock

      Lovers rock is a style of reggae music noted for its Romance sound and content. While love songs had been an important part of reggae since the late 1960s, the style was given a greater focus and a name in London in the mid 1970s....
    • Dancehall
      Dancehall

      Dancehall is a type of Jamaican popular music which developed in the late 1970s, initially as a more sparse and less political and religious variant of reggae than the Roots reggae style that had dominated much of the 1970s....
    • Dub Poetry
      Dub poetry

      Dub Poetry is a form of performance poetry of West Indian origin, which evolved into dub music consisting of spoken word over reggae rhythms in Jamaica in the 1970s....
    • Calypso
      Calypso music

      Calypso is a style of Afro-Caribbean music which originated in Trinidad and Tobago in the beginning of the 20th century....
    • Soul
      Soul music

      Soul music is a music genre originating in the United States combining elements of gospel music and rhythm and blues. According to the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, soul is "music that arose out of the African American culture through the transmutation of gospel and rhythm & blues into a form of funky, Secularity testifying." The genre occasion...
      s
    • Reggaeton
      Reggaeton

      Reggaeton is a form of urban contemporary that became popular with Latin American youth in the early 1990s. After its mainstream exposure in 2004, it spread to North American, European and Asian audiences....
    • Bachata
    • Cumbia
      Cumbia

      Cumbia is a Colombian musical style and folk dance that is considered to be representative of Colombia, along with Vallenato. Cumbia originated from the Caribbean coast of Colombia, with closely related variants existing today in Panama....
    • Country
      Country music

      Country music is a blend of popular American music forms originally found in the Southern United States and the Appalachian Mountains. It has roots in Traditional music, Celtic music, gospel music, and old-time music and evolved rapidly in the 1920s....
  • Colombia
    Colombia

    Colombia , officially the Republic of Colombia , is a country in north-western South America. Colombia is bordered to the east by Venezuela and Brazil; to the south by Ecuador and Peru; to the north by the Caribbean Sea; to the north west by Panama; and to the west by the Pacific Ocean....
    • Cumbia
      Cumbia

      Cumbia is a Colombian musical style and folk dance that is considered to be representative of Colombia, along with Vallenato. Cumbia originated from the Caribbean coast of Colombia, with closely related variants existing today in Panama....
    • Porro
      Porro

      The porro is a Colombia cumbia rhythm that developed into its own sub-genre. The name is derived from "palitiao", in reference to the way the bombo drum is struck along its rim to produce the sound of a Cowbell ....
    • Salsa
      Salsa music

      Salsa music is a diverse and predominantly Latin American Caribbean music genre that is popular across Latin America and among Latinos abroad that was brought to international fame by Puerto Rican people....
    • Champeta
      Champeta

      Champeta is the cultural phenomenon and musical sort of independent and local origin of the afrodescendientes zones of the districts of Cartagena de Indias, with bonds of the culture Creole palenquero....
    • Vallenato
      Vallenato

      Vallenato, along with cumbia, is presently a popular folk music of Colombia. It primarily comes from the Caribbean Region . Vallenato literally means "born in the valley"....
    • Tropipop
    • Mapalé
      Mapalé

      Mapal? is a Colombian dance original of the Afro Colombians culture of the Caribbean Region of Colombia. The dance was introduced in Colombia by African slaves bought by the Spanish from Guinea....
    • Merecumbé
    • Puya
      Puya

      Puya can refer to:* Puya , in the family Bromeliaceae* Puya , a Latin-influenced nu metal band from Puerto Rico* Culoepuya, Venezuelan drums of Congolese origin...
    • Tambora
      Tambora

      Tambora may refer to:* In music:**Tanpura, an instrument used in Indian classical music for continuous production of consonating reference notes ...
  • Cuba
    Cuba

    The Republic of Cuba is a country in the Caribbean. It consists of the island of Cuba , the island of Isla de la Juventud, and several adjacent small islands....
    • Abwe
      Abwe

      An abwe or cheker? is a musical ensemble of Cuba that uses gourds. It is a product of cabildos, historical congregations of African slaves brought to Cuba....
    • Areito
    • Batá
      Bata

      Bata may refer to:In places:* Bata, Afghanistan, a List of places in Afghanistan* Bata, Burgas Province, a place in Burgas Province, Bulgaria...
    • Batá-rumba
      Batá-rumba

      Bat?-rumba is a form of Cuban Rumba music popular mainly in Cuba. Only very recently developed as a sub-genre, it incorporates Caribbean Bat? drum styles with more traditional African Rumba music....
    • Bolero
      Bolero

      Bolero is a name given to certain slow, romantic latin music and its associated dance and song. There are Spanish people and Cuban forms, which are both significant, and which have separate origins....
    • Chachachá
    • Changui
      Changui

      Chang?? is a style of Cuban music which originated in the early 19th century in the eastern region of Guant?namo Province. It arose in the sugar cane refineries and in the rural communities populated by slaves....
    • Charanga
      Charanga

      Charanga is a term given to traditional ensembles of Cuban dance music. They made Cuban dance music popular in the 1940s and their music consisted of heavily Son -influenced material, performed on European instruments such as violin and flute by a Charanga orchestra....
    • Conga
      Conga (music)

      Conga music is a style of Cuban music used to dance Conga Line.Conga is a kind of Ballrooom Studios, but Cuban one.See also: Conga....
    • Comparsa
      Comparsa

      A comparsa is the band which plays a conga during a Cubans Carnival celebration. It consists of a large group of dancers dancing and traveling on the streets, followed by a Carrosa where the musicians play....
    • Danzón
      Danzón

      Danz?n was once called the official dance of Cuba, but it is no longer an active musical form. Like the habanera , the danz?n evolved from the Contradanza, originally of English origin, brought to Cuba by French colonists fleeing the Haitian Revolution in the 1790s....
    • Habanera
      Habanera (music)

      The habanera is a genre of popular Cuban dance music of the 19th century. It is a creolized form which developed from the contradanza. It has a characteristic "Habanera rhythm", and is performed with sung lyrics....
    • Mambo
    • Mozambique
      Mozambique

      Mozambique, officially the Republic of Mozambique , is a country in southeastern Africa bordered by the Indian Ocean to the east, Tanzania to the north, Malawi and Zambia to the northwest, Zimbabwe to the west and Swaziland and South Africa to the southwest....
    • Nueva trova
      Nueva trova

      Nueva trova is a movement in Cuban music that emerged around 1967/68 after the Cuban Revolution of 1959, and the consequent political and social changes....
    • Rumba
      Cuban Rumba

      In Cuban music, Rumba is a generic term covering a variety of musical rhythms and associated dances. The rumba has its influences in the music brought to Cuba by Spanish colonizers as well as Africans brought to Cuba as slaves....
    • Salsa
      Salsa music

      Salsa music is a diverse and predominantly Latin American Caribbean music genre that is popular across Latin America and among Latinos abroad that was brought to international fame by Puerto Rican people....
    • Son
      Son montuno

      Arsenio Rodr?guez initially developed Son Montuno from son . He added instrumental solos called montunos. He also added guaguanc? influence, increased the importance of the trumpets and tres, and added new instruments such as the congas and piano....
    • Son-batá
    • Timba
      Timba

      Timba is the Cuban counterpart of salsa , and is often understood to be a sub-category of salsa. However, the historical development of timba has been quite independent of the development of salsa in the United States and Puerto Rico and the music has its own trademark aspects....
    • UPA
      UPA

      UPA may refer to:* Uganda People's Army, a rebel group active from 1987-1992* Ukrainian Insurgent Army , a Ukrainian nationalist partisan organization during and after World War II...
  • Curaçao
    Curaçao

    Cura?ao is an island in the southern Caribbean Sea, off the Venezuelan coast. The island area of Cura?ao , which includes the main island plus the small, uninhabited island of Klein Cura?ao , is one of five islands of the Netherlands Antilles of the Netherlands Antilles, and as such, is a part of the Kingdom of the Netherlands....
    • Tambú
      Tambu

      This article is about several meanings of the word tambu in music. There is also an album titled Tambu by the band Toto . Also, The 1976 Australian tv show the lost islands took place in 2 islands the main one of which was called tambu....
    • Tumba
      Tumba

      Tumba can mean:*Tumba is a native musical form that is played in Aruba and Cura?ao. Jan Gerard Palm was the first composer to write Tumbas*Lake Tumba - a lake in the Democratic Republic of the Congo...
    • Zumbi
      Zumbi

      Zumbi also known as Zumbi dos Palmares was the last of the leaders of the Palmares , in the present-day state of Alagoas, Brazil....
    • Seú
      SEU

      SEU is a three letter acronym that may refer to:* A Single event upset is a change of state caused by a high-energy particle strike to a sensitive node in a micro-electronic device, such as in a microprocessor, semiconductor memory, or power transistors....
    • Ritmo Kombiná
    • Wals
      Wals

      Wals may refer to one of the following:*Wals, Gelderland, a settlement in Netherlands*Wals-Siezenheim, a suburb of Salzburg, Austria*A common misspelling of Vals ...
  • Dominica
    Dominica

    The Commonwealth of Dominica, commonly known as Dominica, is an island nation in the Caribbean Sea. To the north/northwest lies Guadeloupe, to the southeast Martinique....
    • Bélé
      Bélé

      A b?l? is a folk song and dance from Dominica, performed most commonly during full moon evenings, or sometimes during funeral wakes . It may be the oldest Creole dance from Dominica, and strongly reflects influences from African fertility dances....
    • Bouyon music
      Bouyon music

      Bouyon is a form of popular music of Dominica, also known as jump up music in Guadeloupe and Martinique. There are many bands in Dominica who play Bouyon music but the two most famous band are , who originated the style by fusing Bele, Quadrille, Cadence, Zouk, and other styles of Caribbean music and also the most famous band Tr...
    • Cadence-lypso
      Cadence-lypso

      Cadence-lypso developed in the 1970s, and was the first style of Dominican music to find international acclaim, eventually becoming a part of styles like zouk....
    • Jing-Ping
  • Dominican Republic
    Dominican Republic

    The Dominican Republic is a nation on the island of Hispaniola, part of the Greater Antilles archipelago in the Caribbean region. The western third of the island is occupied by the nation of Haiti, making Hispaniola one of two Caribbean islands that are List of divided islands, Saint Martin being the other....
    • Bachata
    • Gaga
      Gaga

      * A slang adjective for someone experiencing dementia or insanity* Rara, a type of Caribbean music known in the Dominican Republic as gaga* Ga-ga, an Israeli form of dodgeball...
    • Merengue
      Merengue music

      Merengue is a type of music and Merengue from the Dominican Republic.It is popular in the Dominican Republic and all over Latin America. Its name is Spanish language, taken from the Spanish name of the meringue, a dessert made from whipped egg whites and sugar....
    • Salve
      Salve

      A salve is a medical ointment used to soothe the head or other body surface. A popular eye medicine known as "Phrygian powder" was one of Laodicea on the Lycus's sources of wealth....
    • Salsa
      Salsa music

      Salsa music is a diverse and predominantly Latin American Caribbean music genre that is popular across Latin America and among Latinos abroad that was brought to international fame by Puerto Rican people....
  • Haiti
    Haiti

    Haiti , officially the Republic of Haiti , is a Haitian Creole language- and French language-speaking Caribbean country. Along with the Dominican Republic, it occupies the island of Hispaniola, in the Greater Antilles archipelago....
    • Compas
    • Conbite
    • Cadence rampa
      Cadence rampa

      Cadence rampa is a variety of music of Ha?ti from the Caribbean country of Ha?ti....
    • Kadans
      Kadans

      Kadans is a Haitian Creole music genre, which started off in Ha?ti and developed in the French islands. In the 1970s, a wave of Ha?tian immigrants to Martinique brought with them the kadans, a sophisticated form of music that helped unite all the former French colonies of the Caribbean by combining their cultural influences....
    • Méringue
      Meringue

      Meringue is a type of dessert made from whipping egg whites and Powdered sugar . Some meringue recipes call for adding a binding agent such as cream of tartar or the cornstarch found in confectioner's sugar....
    • Rara
      Rara

      Originating in Ha?ti, rara is a form of festival music used for street processions, typically during Easter Week. The music centers on a set of cylindrical bamboo trumpets called vaksen , but also features drums, maracas, g?iros , and metal bells, as well as sometimes also cylindrical metal trumpets which are made from recycled metal, oft...
  • Jamaica
    Jamaica

    Jamaica is an island nation of the Greater Antilles, in length and as much as in width situated in the Caribbean Sea. It is about south of Cuba, and west of the island of Hispaniola, on which Haiti and the Dominican Republic are situated....
    • Dancehall
      Dancehall

      Dancehall is a type of Jamaican popular music which developed in the late 1970s, initially as a more sparse and less political and religious variant of reggae than the Roots reggae style that had dominated much of the 1970s....
    • Dub
    • Kumina
      Kumina

      Kumina or Cumina is a cultural form indigenous to Jamaica. It is a religion, music and dance practiced by in large part Jamaicans who reside in the eastern parish on St....
    • Lovers rock
      Lovers rock

      Lovers rock is a style of reggae music noted for its Romance sound and content. While love songs had been an important part of reggae since the late 1960s, the style was given a greater focus and a name in London in the mid 1970s....
    • Mento
      Mento

      Mento is a style of Music of Jamaica folk music that predates and has greatly influenced ska and reggae music. Mento typically features acoustic instruments, such as classical guitar, banjo, hand drums, and the rhumba box ? a large mbira in the shape of a box that can be sat on while played....
    • Nyabinghi
    • Ragga
      Ragga

      Raggamuffin music, usually abbreviated as ragga, is a sub-genre of dancehall music or reggae, in which the instrumentation primarily consists of electronic music....
    • Reggae
      Reggae

      Reggae is a music genre first developed in Jamaica in the late 1960s.While sometimes used in a broader sense to refer to most types of Music of Jamaica, the term reggae more properly denotes a particular music style that originated following on the development of ska and rocksteady....
    • Rocksteady
      Rocksteady

      Rocksteady is a music genre that was most popular in Jamaica, starting around 1966, and its reggae successor was established around 1968.The term rocksteady comes from a dance style that was mentioned in the Alton Ellis song "Rock Steady"....
    • Roots reggae
      Roots reggae

      Roots reggae is a subgenre of reggae that concerns itself with the life of the ghetto sufferer, and the rural poor. Lyrical themes include poverty, social issues, resistance to government oppression, repatriation, and Rastafari movement....
    • Ska
      Ska

      Ska is a music genre that originated in Jamaica in the late 1950s, and was the precursor to rocksteady and reggae. Ska combined elements of Caribbean mento and Calypso music with United States jazz and rhythm and blues....
    • Soca
      Soca music

      Soca is a form of dance music that originated in Trinidad and Tobago from calypso music. It originally combined the melodic lilting sound of calypso with insistent percussion and local chutney music....
  • Martinique
    Martinique

    Martinique is an island in the eastern Caribbean Sea, having a land area of 1,128 km?. It is an overseas department of France. To the northwest lies Dominica, to the south St Lucia....
     and Guadeloupe
    Guadeloupe

    Guadeloupe is an island group or archipelago located in the eastern Caribbean Sea at , with a land area of 1,628 square kilometres . It is an overseas department of France....
    • Bèlè
      Bélé

      A b?l? is a folk song and dance from Dominica, performed most commonly during full moon evenings, or sometimes during funeral wakes . It may be the oldest Creole dance from Dominica, and strongly reflects influences from African fertility dances....
       (or "Bel Air" in Martinique)
    • Biguine
      Biguine

      Biguine is a style of music that originated in Martinique in the 19th century.By combining the traditional b?l? music with the polka, the black musicians of Martinique created the biguine, which comprises three distinct styles, the biguine de salon, the biguine de bal and the biguines de rue....
    • Dancehall
      Dancehall

      Dancehall is a type of Jamaican popular music which developed in the late 1970s, initially as a more sparse and less political and religious variant of reggae than the Roots reggae style that had dominated much of the 1970s....
    • Gwo ka
      Gwo ka

      Gwo ka is both a family of hand drums and the music created with them, which is a major part of music of Guadeloupe. There are seven rhythms in gwo ka, which are embellished by the drummers....
       (in Guadeloupe)
    • Ragga
      Ragga

      Raggamuffin music, usually abbreviated as ragga, is a sub-genre of dancehall music or reggae, in which the instrumentation primarily consists of electronic music....
    • Reggae
      Reggae

      Reggae is a music genre first developed in Jamaica in the late 1960s.While sometimes used in a broader sense to refer to most types of Music of Jamaica, the term reggae more properly denotes a particular music style that originated following on the development of ska and rocksteady....
    • Zouk
      Zouk

      Zouk is a style of rhythmic music originating from the islands of Guadeloupe, Martinique, Haiti, Dominica . Zouk means "party" or "festival" in the local creole language of French with English influences....
  • Puerto Rico
    Puerto Rico

    Puerto Rico , officially the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico , is a Autonomy Territories of the United States of the United States located in the northeastern Caribbean, east of the Dominican Republic and west of the Virgin Islands....
    • Bomba
      Bomba

      For the ecuadorian afro-rhythm see Bomba Bomba is one of the most famous musical styles of Puerto Rico. Although there is some controversy surrounding its origin, most agree that it is a largely African music....
    • Danza
      Danza

      Danza is a musical genre native to the Caribbean, which was derived from the contradanza. They were both sequence dances, performed to a pattern, usually of squares, to music that was instrumental....
    • Décima
      Decima

      Decima can refer to:*Decima , a goddess in Roman mythology, Decima was one of the Parcae *D?cima is a type of poetic form with roots in Spanish literature...
    • Plena
      Plena

      Plena is a folkloric genre native of Puerto Rico. Its creation was influenced by African and Spain music....
    • Reggaeton
      Reggaeton

      Reggaeton is a form of urban contemporary that became popular with Latin American youth in the early 1990s. After its mainstream exposure in 2004, it spread to North American, European and Asian audiences....
    • Salsa
      Salsa music

      Salsa music is a diverse and predominantly Latin American Caribbean music genre that is popular across Latin America and among Latinos abroad that was brought to international fame by Puerto Rican people....
  • Saint Kitts and Nevis
    Saint Kitts and Nevis

    The Federation of Saint Kitts and Nevis , located in the Leeward Islands, is a federal two-island nation in the West Indies. It is the smallest nation in the Americas, in both List of countries by area and List of countries by population....
    • Soca
      Soca music

      Soca is a form of dance music that originated in Trinidad and Tobago from calypso music. It originally combined the melodic lilting sound of calypso with insistent percussion and local chutney music....
    • Calypso
      Calypso music

      Calypso is a style of Afro-Caribbean music which originated in Trinidad and Tobago in the beginning of the 20th century....
    • Steelpan
      Steelpan

      Steelpans is a musical instrument and a form of music originating from Trinidad. Steelpan musicians are called pannists....
    • Stringband music
  • Saint Lucia
    Saint Lucia

    Saint Lucia is an island nation in the eastern Caribbean Sea on the boundary with the Atlantic Ocean. Part of the Lesser Antilles, it is located north/northeast of the islands of Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, northwest of Barbados and south of Martinique....
    • Kont
      Kont

      'Kont' is a kind of Saint Lucian folk song, performed as part of the wiktionary : funereal ceremony by mourners outside the deceased's house....
  • Saint Vincent and the Grenadines
    Saint Vincent and the Grenadines

    Saint Vincent and the Grenadines is an island nation in the Lesser Antilles island arc of the Caribbean Sea. Its territory consists of the main island of Saint Vincent and the northern two-thirds of the Grenadines....
    • Soca
      Soca music

      Soca is a form of dance music that originated in Trinidad and Tobago from calypso music. It originally combined the melodic lilting sound of calypso with insistent percussion and local chutney music....
    • Calypso music
      Calypso music

      Calypso is a style of Afro-Caribbean music which originated in Trinidad and Tobago in the beginning of the 20th century....
    • Steel pan music
    • Strig Band music
    • Dancehall
      Dancehall

      Dancehall is a type of Jamaican popular music which developed in the late 1970s, initially as a more sparse and less political and religious variant of reggae than the Roots reggae style that had dominated much of the 1970s....
    • Chutney
      Chutney music

      Chutney music is a form of music indigenous to the southern Caribbean and to a lesser extent[Guyana], which derives elements from soca music and Indian filmi songs....
    • Big Drum music
    • Chutney-soca
      Chutney-soca

      In Guyana, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines and Trinidad and Tobago, Chutney-Soca music is a crossover style of music incorporating Soca music elements and Hindi-English lyrics, Chutney music, with Indian instruments like the dholak and dhantal....
  • Trinidad and Tobago
    Trinidad and Tobago

    The Republic of Trinidad and Tobago is an island country in the southern Caribbean, lying northeast of the South American country of Venezuela and south of Grenada in the Lesser Antilles....
    • Calypso
      Calypso music

      Calypso is a style of Afro-Caribbean music which originated in Trinidad and Tobago in the beginning of the 20th century....
    • Chut-kai-pang
      Chut-kai-pang

      Chut-Kai-pang is a style of music that is a cross between Trinidad?s traditional Christmas music, parang, sung in Spanish with Venezuelan rhythms, has merged with the Calypso music and chutney styles to create a form known as Chut-kai-pang....
    • Chutney
      Chutney music

      Chutney music is a form of music indigenous to the southern Caribbean and to a lesser extent[Guyana], which derives elements from soca music and Indian filmi songs....
    • Chutney-soca
      Chutney-soca

      In Guyana, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines and Trinidad and Tobago, Chutney-Soca music is a crossover style of music incorporating Soca music elements and Hindi-English lyrics, Chutney music, with Indian instruments like the dholak and dhantal....
    • Dancehall
      Dancehall

      Dancehall is a type of Jamaican popular music which developed in the late 1970s, initially as a more sparse and less political and religious variant of reggae than the Roots reggae style that had dominated much of the 1970s....
    • Extempo
      Extempo

      Extempo is a lyrically improvised form of Calypso music and is most notably practised in Trinidad and Tobago. It consists of a performer improvising in song or in rhythmic speech on a given theme before an audience who themselves take turns to perform....
    • Gospelypso
    • Pan music
    • Parang
      Parang

      Parang is a type of music with Caribbean and Latin American cultural influences. The word is derived from the Spanish word parranda, meaning 'merry-making' or 'a group of serenaders'....
    • Pichakaree
      Pichakaree

      Pichakaree is an Indo-Trinidadian people musical form which originated in Trinidad and Tobago. It is named after the long syringe-like tubes used to spray abir during Holi celebrations....
    • Rapso
      Rapso

      Rapso is a form of music of Trinidad and Tobago that grew out of the social unrest of the 1970s. It has been described as "de power of de word in the riddum of de word"....
    • Reggae
      Reggae

      Reggae is a music genre first developed in Jamaica in the late 1960s.While sometimes used in a broader sense to refer to most types of Music of Jamaica, the term reggae more properly denotes a particular music style that originated following on the development of ska and rocksteady....
    • Soca
      Soca music

      Soca is a form of dance music that originated in Trinidad and Tobago from calypso music. It originally combined the melodic lilting sound of calypso with insistent percussion and local chutney music....
    • Steel Pan
    • Yahdees


See also

  • Caribana -- an annual Caribbean music festival in Toronto
    Toronto

    Toronto is the List of the 100 largest municipalities in Canada by population in Canada and the Provinces and territories of Canada Provincial and territorial capitals of Canada of Ontario....
  • Caribbean Carnival
    Caribbean Carnival

    Caribbean Carnival is the term used for a number of events that take place in many of the Caribbean islands annually.The Caribbean's Carnivals all have several common themes based on folklore, culture, and religion, not on amusement rides....