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Topic: Biguine


In the News (Mon 6 Jul 09)

  
  CONK! Encyclopedia: Biguine   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Biguine is a style of music that originated in Martinique in the 19th century.
The popularity of the biguine declined in the 1970s, when it began to be replaced by more commercial music.
The biguine is similar to New Orleans jazz music, and may have influenced its development.
www.conk.com /search/encyclopedia.cgi?q=Biguine   (111 words)

  
 Music of Martinique and Guadeloupe - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Biguine vidé is participatory music, with the bandleader singing a verse and the audience responding.
Biguine moderne, a pop form, has maintained some pop success in Martinique, especially artists like Kali, who fuse the genre with reggae.
Elements of gwo ka, tambour, ti bwa and biguine vidé are prominent in zouk.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Music_of_Martinique_and_Guadeloupe   (1348 words)

  
 Encyclopedia: Biguine   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
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Polka is a type of dance and genre of dance music; it originated in the middle of the 19th century in Bohemia, and is still a common genre of Czech folk music; it is also common both in Europe and in the Americas.
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www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Biguine   (504 words)

  
 Biguine -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
By combining the traditional bèlè music with the (A Bohemian dance with 3 steps and a hop in fast time) polka, the fl musicians of Martinique created the biguine, which comprises three distinct styles, the biguine de salon, the biguine de bal and the biguines de rue.
Lacking recognition at home, several biguine artists moved to mainland (A republic in western Europe; the largest country wholly in Europe) France, where they achieved greater popularity in (The capital and largest city of France; and international center of culture and commerce) Paris, especially in the wake of the colonial exhibition in 1931.
The popularity of the biguine declined in the (The decade from 1970 to 1979) 1970s, when it began to be replaced by more commercial music.
www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/b/bi/biguine.htm   (153 words)

  
 Biguine Predictions Spring 2003
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www.femail.com.au /biguine_predictions_2003.htm   (434 words)

  
 Economía y negocios - Estética de pasarela, por Laura Durango para "El Universal"   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Jean Claude Biguine es un creador francés de 48 años que hace dos décadas abrió su primera peluquería en, París con la idea de convertir sus salones de belleza en casas de moda; hoy cuenta con 350 peluquerías en 17 países.
"Biguine ha hecho de sus champús verdaderos tratanúentos de belleza al incorporar sustancias igual de importantes que las que se utilizan en las cremas del rostro" dice Gina, para quien "elcuero cabelludo no es sino la continuación de la piel de la cara".
La revista Biguine, bianual, recoge las tendencias de temporada de la firma y se ha convertido en Francia en una de las más esperadas en sus más de 200 centros repartidos por el país galo.
www.francia.org.mx /negocios/otros/ldurango_estetica-universal071003.html   (571 words)

  
 Christian Pégand Productions - Sakésho   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
And much of that magic is the biguine - the intensely syncopated, polyrhythmic music from the islands of Martinique and Guadeloupe that provides Sakésho (HUCD 3069) with its driving inspiration.
Beginning with a biguine so sunny and festive that the audience was instantly hooked, steel pan drummer Andy Narell unveiled Sakesho, his new French Caribbean-flavored band, at Blues Alley on Wednesday night.
The band uses the biguine's infectious rumbalike allure as a touchstone, but the group also embraces calypso beats, two-bar vamplike Afro-Cuban montunos, sophisticated jazz harmonies and extended improvisations.
www.christianpegand.com /uk/sake.html   (1243 words)

  
 Atevo Travel: Weekly Focus Articles: Martinique Pulses with Rhythm of Zouk   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Zouk, which along with cadence is related to biguine, merengue, danzon, and guaguanco Caribbean musical styles, features both traditional and high-tech musical instruments.
Cole Porter recorded the height of its fame on his renowned "Begin the Biguine," and the Creole sound became a mainstay in Paris' dancehalls and nightclubs.
Also at the helm in the biguine's revival is the folk dance group Les Grands Ballets Martiniquais, a troupe of a dozen dancers, musicians, singers, and choreographers.
images.atevo.com /misc/print_article/0,3869,3504138,00.html   (646 words)

  
 J: big pix
Chanté Noël is a fairly recent tradition, consisting of lively biguines and mazouks on Christmas themes, sung informally at Christmas parties.
Biguine is the best-known of these styles outside the French Antilles, having been performed in Paris by emmigrant musicians as early as the 1920s.
Biguine is somewhat more associated with Guadeloupe, mazouk with Martinique.
www.colorquilts.com /julian/NewGrove.html   (3615 words)

  
 Sakesho, self-titled   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Sakèsho is the name of the quartet, three of whom were born in the French Caribbean, and the music they perform is born of "biguine," a form of highly syncopated, polyrhythmic music native to Martinique and Guadeloupe.
Alino's composition "Grand Fabrice" is a complex tune, with frequent timing changes throughout its near eight-minute length; it gradually builds from the predominance of a gentle steel pan to incorporate all the considerable talents of the band.
The intuitive may recognise the influence of Thelonious Monk or Herbie Hancock, and there is a definite jazz feel to the CD, but every so often the biguine of the French Caribbean overwhelms the apparent familiarity and sparks a new interpretation and a spicier sound.
www.rambles.net /sakesho_selftitl02.html   (338 words)

  
 Heads Up: Sakesho
Not every tune on Sakésho is a biguine; some are calypsos, some are Afro-Cuban, and some are gorgeous jazz ballads.
But the flavor of the French Caribbean, and its rich musical traditions, washes over this enhanced CD as irresistibly (and refreshingly) as a blue wave rolling into the windward coast of some green, glowing island in the tropical sea.
Not really a biguine, "Divini" is just a beautiful jazz ballad with yet another beautiful piano solo.
www.headsup.com /albums/3069.asp   (635 words)

  
 Latin Jazz Network - Artists, Music, Articles, Events, Interviews, Reviews
The band draws its main musical inspiration from biguine, the folkloric music of Martinique and Guadeloupe.
According to Peter Manuel, author of "Caribbean Currents," biguine orchestras played for dances in a variety of locations, including dance halls, church parties, birthday parties and private affairs.
It also represents the purest form of biguine on this recording; "Divini" is a beautiful jazz ballad.
www.latinjazznet.com /reviews/sakesho.htm   (285 words)

  
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www.zohooralreef.com /english/en_products_biguinemakehome.htm   (705 words)

  
 Accorhotels - Travel Guides
Although French is the official language, most Martinicans also speak Creole, which grew out of the pidgin that early setters used to communicate with each other, and which also bears the traces of the many tongues spoken by African slaves.
The biguine (or beguine), an Afro-French dance music with a bolero rhythm, originated in Martinique in the 1930s.
With its Carnival-like rhythm and hot dance beat, zouk has become as popular in Europe as it is in the French Caribbean.
www.lonelyplanet.fr /accor/country/gb/martinique/index.php?category=culture   (177 words)

  
 Afropop Worldwide
But a few years later, the rumba was there, and as she had the gift of music from God, coming from the traditional side we arrived at the rumba we know today.
So I inherited this, the Cuban context, the American one--rumba, biguine, waltz, and tango--and in this way, I Wendo, arrived with a diverse style in between the rumba that you find today and the dance musics around the world.
The word was there, but when I began singing and dancing, it was really the public who appreciated the music, be it rumba; this is biguine, this is waltz.
www.afropop.org /multi/interview/ID/27   (1646 words)

  
 Les Productions d'OZ - ENGEL, Claude / Guitare biguine
Guitare Biguine is a slightly tongue-in-cheek witty solo from the pen of the French composer Claude Engel, a composer who has collaborated with such as Charles Aznavour, Serge Gainsbourg and Astor Piazzolla.
To bring out the true intentions of the composer and create an authentic stylistic performance, the player will need to follow very closely all the accentuation and staccato markings, otherwise this piece just falls flat.
If these markings are observed though, the tuneful and rhythmic Guitare Biguine could be an amusing insertion into the recital programme list, perhaps as an encore.
www.productionsdoz.com /c216621p16441723.2.html   (151 words)

  
 Biguine   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
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 Martinique: Cane Fields and City Streets
The notes plausibly suggest that Loulou Boislaville, who sings the biguine Ti Paul, took Lomax to Sainte-Marie, and the home of Raoul Grivalliers (‘Ti Raoul’), for Boislaville was the organiser of Les Ballets Folkloriques Martiniquais, the leading presenters of folkloric entertainment for tourists, and Ti Raoul had been a member, off and on, since 1952.
Martinique is split by mountains running north-south, and this led to distinctively regional styles, which were still vigorous in 1962; Sainte-Marie, in the northeast, was an area where many freed slaves and sons of mixed race unions had owned small farms for many generations, and some families became specialists in music and dance.
Back home, the music is much more unbuttoned and energised; the clarinettist produces a taut, shawm-like tone in order to be heard over the trombonist without balancing microphones, and the harmony as a whole is pleasingly rougher, probably because the musicians are not accommodating their tunings to a piano.
www.mustrad.org.uk /reviews/martiniq.htm   (1538 words)

  
 Heads Up: Sakesho
Much more than a modern jazz quartet, Sakésho (pronounced sah kay show), with its roots deep in the biguine – the intensely syncopated, polyrhythmic music of the French Caribbean – is inventing a completely new world groove.
His mastery of the complex polyrhythms of the biguine is almost beyond belief.
In live performance, his hands and feet move so fast they blur – and the sounds emerging from his drum set would make anyone think there were at least two drummers at work.
www.headsup.com /bios/sakesho.html   (852 words)

  
 Putumayo World Music - Caribbean Music
The sound and feel of a tropical getaway are captured on these rich collections of zouk, reggae, compas, soca and biguine.
The French Caribbean is a place where music is imbedded in the landscape: whether it is compas or zouk blaring out of storefront speakers or the variety of sounds that enliven carnival celebrations and street festivals.
Acoustic traditional styles like Haitian twoubadou and Martiniquean biguine have recently earned a place on trendy dance floors alongside flashier zouk and compas.
www.sensia.com /putcaribbean.htm   (1875 words)

  
 Graduate Student Profile - French & Francophone Studies   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
One of those French colonies is Guadeloupe, which was the birthplace of a musical art form called biguine.
Drawing on his experience as a percussionist-he has an undergraduate degree in musical performance-Edwin examines how the calypso-like biguine, a dance and musical genre with creole lyrics on topics ranging from love and daily relationships to current events and political commentary, became a craze in Jazz Age Paris.
Music (especially rhythm and drums) was often related to ideas about flness, which seemed to play an important role in the French cultural imagination during the period Edwin is studying.
www.gdnet.ucla.edu /asis/profile/fren.htm   (790 words)

  
 entertainment.iafrica.com | local beat | featured artist Legendary pianist to grace Grahamstown
World class pianist Alain Jean-Marie, of the French-Caribbean, will be presenting an eclectic mix of Caribbean jazz and world music styles at this year's Standard Bank Jazz Festival in Grahamstown as part of his world tour.
His work has led him to jazz, strongly spiced by the sounds of its Creole cousin, the biguine.
He was honoured with the Django Reinhardt prize, by the highly respected Academie du Jazz in 1979 in acknowledgement of the sophisticated chemistry and passion of his works.
entertainment.iafrica.com /localbeat/featuredartist/38355.htm   (271 words)

  
 Daniel Biguine - The Art of Living   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
The Prague Society’s Web site identifies member Daniel Biguine as a “Corporate Chairman and Art Collector,” a description that conjures images of tailored suits and Sotheby’s auctions.
But the Biguine who greets a visitor to his cluttered office wears fl jeans and matching T–shirt and talks enthusiastically about up–and–coming local artists and pieces he picked up at antiques bazaars, as many stacked against the walls as hanging on them.
He also paints himself; his canvases, which comment humorously on the relation ship between substance and signature in the valuation of art, were exhibited at Art Prague 2004.
www.clubmagazine.cz /2004_03/interview/Biguine/Daniel_Biguine.htm   (1116 words)

  
 wedding - Biguine Lip Cubes - i-do.com.au   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
We all know a girl can never have enough handbags, shoes or lipgloss, however we also know not all are created equal!
To excite even the most hardcore lipgloss fans is the adorable Lip Cube, from Biguine.
Biguine Makeup is available from selected salons and spas Australia-wide.
www.i-do.com.au /network/ShowArticle.asp?Article=1261&Topic=224   (130 words)

  
 Classical Net Review - Moross - Frankie and Johnny, etc.
One enjoys such a good time with the piece, that Moross's simultaneous near-encyclopedic survey of modernist devices slip by as such, and registers expressively - exactly as it should.
Biguine (nobody knows why Moross spelled it this way) shows the 1930s U.S. fascination with Latin rhythms, from Gershwin and Cole Porter to Copland and Paul Bowles.
Porter really never uses the beguine as anything more than a piano vamp, while Moross builds the rhythm contrapuntally, from many different melodic bits.
www.classical.net /~music/recs/reviews/k/kch37367a.html   (1286 words)

  
 French Culture | Music | French Caribbean Cd contest (Putumayo)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
A musical cruise of the French Caribbean with a selection of fun, upbeat zouk, compas, twoubadou, biguine and more.
Putumayo takes listeners on a musical cruise of the French Caribbean with a selection of fun, upbeat zouk, compas, twoubadou, biguine and more.
With French Caribbean, Putumayo revisits the French Creole islands of Haiti, Guadeloupe and Martinique which have been experiencing a roots revival in recent years.
www.info-france-usa.org /culture/music/events/04putucaribcdcont.html   (383 words)

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