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	Martinique - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Martinique is an overseas département (département d'outre-mer, or DOM) of France, located in the Caribbean Sea.
		Martinique was the birthplace of Empress Josephine, wife of Napoleon Bonaparte.
		Martinique is especially well known for the number of great authors that have come from the island and become extremely famous in France and throughout the world.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Martinique (336 words)

	Music of Martinique and Guadeloupe - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The former French colonies of Martinique and Guadeloupe are small islands in the Caribbean.
		Zouk's origins are in the folk music of Martinique and Guadeloupe, especially Martinican chouval bwa and Guadeloupan gwo ka, and the pan-Caribbean calypso tradition.
		The music originated among rural Martinicans, as a form of celebratory holiday music played to accompany a dance called the manege (which translates as merry-go-round; chouval bwa is a Creole version of cheval bois, which refers to the wooden horses seen on merry-go-rounds).
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Music_of_Martinique_and_Guadeloupe (1348 words)

	Guadeloupe - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Guadeloupe is an archipelago in the eastern Caribbean Sea, with a total area of 1,704 kmandsup2.
		Guadeloupe was populated from 300 BC by the Arawak Amerindians, who fished and developed agriculture on the island.
		Note: Guadeloupe is an archipelago of nine inhabited islands: the main islands Basse-Terre on the west and Grande-Terre on the east, the nearby smaller islands,, (2) and, and more to the northwest, beyond St Kitts and Nevis: Saint Barthélemy and Saint-Martin (French part of the island of Saint Martin).
	www.secaucus.us /project/wikipedia/index.php/Guadeloupe (1023 words)

	CONK! Encyclopedia: Biguine (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Biguine is a style of music that originated in Martinique in the 19th century.
		By combining the traditional bÃ¨lÃ¨ music with the 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.
		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)

	Guadeloupe - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Guadeloupe is an archipelago in the eastern Caribbean Sea, with a total area of 1,704 km².
		French control of Guadeloupe was finally acknowledged in the Treaty of Vienna in 1815.
		Guadeloupe comprises five islands: Basse-Terre, Grande-Terre (separated from Basse-Terre by a narrow sea channel called salt river) with the adjacent islands of La Désirade, Les Saintes and Marie-Galante.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Guadeloupe (1007 words)

	Martinique (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		The département of Martinique is an overseas département (département d'outre-mer, or DOM) of France, located in the Caribbean Sea.
		Colonized by France in 1635, the island has subsequently remained a French possession except for three brief periods of foreign occupation.
		Only one resident survived the blast - a prisoner, who was protected by the thick walls of his cell.
	www.bidprobe.com /en/wikipedia/m/ma/martinique.html (187 words)

	Martinique - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		From 1635 (arrival of Pierre Belain d'Esnambuc, a French aristocrat who took possession of the island for France) to 1946, MArtinique lived as a French colony producing tropical trade goods such as cane sugar, coffee, rhum or cocoa.
		Although some have thought of Joséphine as colored, Joséphine Rose Tascher de la Pagerie was the offspring of colonial slave-owning aristocrats.
		Only one resident survived the blast — a prisoner by the name of, who was protected by the thick walls of his cell.
	www.northmiami.us /project/wikipedia/index.php/Martinique (380 words)

	Guadeloupe Information (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		One indication of Guadeloupe's prosperity at this time is that in the Treaty of Paris (1763)Treaty of Paris (1763), France abandoned its territorial claims in Canada in return for British recognition of French control of Guadeloupe.
		The French retook the island under the command of Victor Hughes, who succeeded to free the slaves and turn on the slave-owners who controlled the sugar plantations, but when American interests were threatened, Napoleon sent a force to suppress the rebels and reinstitute slavery.
		Guadeloupe became an overseas departementdépartement of France on March 19, 1946.
	www.echostatic.com /Guadeloupe.html (1009 words)

	Rounder Records proudly presents the Alan Lomax Collection
		Music from Guadeloupe, Martinique, and St. Barth‚lemy, former French colonies with allied yet distinct musical cultures.
		Guadeloupe and Martinique enjoy a strong Afro-Creole heritage of drum dances, wake songs, stories, quadrilles, and vibrant urban dances such as the beguine, while their small East Indian populations preserve the Kali sacrificial rituals.
		This is music for the ancestors, or "Old Parents," performed at Tombstone Feasts held years after death and burial, when the body is finally entombed and the spirit of the departed may at last rest in peace.
	www.rounder.com /series/lomax_alan/carib.htm (891 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Administratively speaking, Guadeloupe is an overseas département (département d'outre-mer, or DOM) of France.
		As the other DOMs, Guadeloupe is also a région of France.
		Guadeloupe comprises five islands: Guadeloupe proper (Basse-Terre), Grande-Terre (separated from Basse-Terre by a narrow sea channel called salt river) with the adjacent islands of La Désirade, Îles des Saintes and Marie Galante.
	www.askmytutor.co.uk /g/gu/guadeloupe.html (172 words)

	World Music Central - Your connection to World Music
		His musical career has been dedicated to the revival of Antillean music and exploring the roots of Zouk.
		At that time much of the local pop music of Martinique and Guadeloupe had been greatly influenced by electronics, focusing on keeping up with dance floor beats all the while allowing Haitian compas and cadence beats to dominate the more traditional aspect of the popular music scene.
		The success of Zouk and of African music in general in the 70's and 80's rekindled an interest in the African heritage that contributed to the "Africanized French music" from Martinique.
	www.worldmusiccentral.org /artists/artist_page.php?id=824 (457 words)

	Articles - Music of Dominica (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		The most important instrument in Dominican music is the drum, which was as a method of communication in the slave era, and was used to coordinate revolts until it was banned by colonial authorities.
		Their music was a dance-oriented version of many kinds of Caribbean and Latin popular music, such as Cuban bolero, Brazilian samba, the merengue of the Dominican Republic and Trinidadian calypso and funk.
		Popular music during this time was mostly zouk, a style pioneered by the Martinican band Kassav, who used styles of folk music of Martinique and Guadeloupe.
	gaple.com /articles/Music_of_Dominica?mySession=f2903e72c33fe1af2351... (1075 words)

	Whole Earth Review: World beat: a brief guide - how "foreign" records surface (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Recorded music is just like any other product in that it follows certain trade routes, and must fulfill enough customers' needs to provide entrepreneurs with a reasonable return on their investment.
		In the forties, Congolese music imitated Martiniquan biquines and Cuban sones, the "Rhumba Connection." In the sixties, Nigerian and Ghanaian musicians took the horns and guitars of American soul for their own.
		Currently, the zouk music of Guadeloupe is sweeping France and affecting the African records being produced there.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m1510/is_n59/ai_6484600 (831 words)

	Latin American music (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		It includes the music of many countries and comes in many varieties, from the down-home conjunto music of northern Mexico to the sophisticated habanera (music)habanera of Cuba, from the symphonies of Heitor Villa-Lobos/ to the simple and moving Andean flute.
		These cultures had well-developed musical institutions that were "reduced to simpler levels and styles through the annihilation or reduction of the ruling classes, and through the introduction of Christianity" (Nettl, p.
		Music from non-Latin parts of the Caribbean are also popular, especially Jamaican reggae and dub musicdub, and Trinidad and TobagoTrinidadian calypso music/.
	www.infothis.com /find/Latin_American_music (1069 words)

	Guadeloupe vacations - holidays in Guadeloupe & the Caribbean.
		Victor Schoelcher, a Parisian whose campaign to abolish slavery in France’s colonies succeeded in 1848, was elected deputy governor of Guadeloupe.
		In Guadeloupe’s people you will find a centuries-old fusion of Creole and French reflected in our elegant culture, clothes and faces.
		And if all that activity works up your appetite you will find an excellent cuisine heavily influenced by Gallic flavours, and you can dance it all off to the lively and loud sounds of zouk and ragga in the discos.
	www.doitcaribbean.com /guadeloupe/index.html.en-GB (440 words)

	Kali (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		At that time much of the local pop music of Martinique and Guadeloupe had been greatly influenced by electronics, focusing on keeping up with dance floor beats all the while allowing Haitian compas and cadence bands to dominate the more traditional aspect of the popular music scene.
		The success of Zouk and of African music in general in the 70s and 80s rekindled an interest in the African heritage that contributed to the "Africanized French music" sound from Martinique.
		Still keeping true to the carnival feel of the traditional music, he never overlooks the predominant issues of social importance in Martinique and Guadeloupe.
	webtunes.com /artist/k/kali.cfm (407 words)

	Island Vacations & Travel to Guadeloupe \| Caribbean Tourism Organisation
		To the Caribs, Guadeloupe was known as karukera — the island of beautiful waters.
		Guadeloupe offers a vast choice of restaurants and cafés — 700 at the last count — including Vietnamese and Lebanese.
		If all that activity works up your appetite, you will find an excellent cuisine heavily influenced by Gallic flavors, and you can dance it all off to the loud and lively sounds of zouk in the discos.
	www.doitcaribbean.com /guadeloupe/index.html.en-US (432 words)

	Sakesho, self-titled (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		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.
		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.
		The album is brought to a resounding close by 12 minutes of "Song for Mia," with guest singer Polo Athanase leading on the end chant vocals, the musical roots of Martinique producing fantastical exotic flowers of sound.
	www.rambles.net /sakesho_selftitl02.html (338 words)

	Music Mix (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Wendy describes her music as pop dance with a little bit of RandB flavor and hopes to inspire her listening audience to live and dance.
		Their musical expressions often reflect history or current social conditions while celebrating the virtues of awareness and change.
		The music was re-named zouk and to RSB is an expression of two similar cultures : the unique Afro-Caribbean rhythm colored by a touch of Soca/Calypso and with moderate influences by American groups.
	www.avirtualdominica.com /music/mix.htm (731 words)

	Turquoise Net - Guadeloupe Tourist Guide
		Most of the visitors to Guadeloupe are French, arriving en masse to this picturesque butterfly island deep in the heart of the Caribbean.
		Guadeloupe shines among the family of Caribbean islands as an affluent and self-assured country with cosmopolitan flair bordered by beaches and coral reefs on one wing of the butterlfy and open lands with the fertile, volcanic peaks of the 30,000 hectare Parc National on the other.
		Bringing together the best of its combined European and Caribbean heritage, Guadeloupe is an interesting mix of urban buzz and pristine scenery, suffused with an irresistible Creole flair.
	www.turq.com /guadeloupe/index.php (355 words)

	Jocelyne Guilbault, Beyond the World Music Label
		From a musical perspective, world music as fusion music is usually described as the blending of modern and traditional musics, usually implicitly or explicitly associated with first world and third world musics respectively.
		In advertisements, in newspapers or magazines, world music is often referred to as a dance music, as a thrill, and as a source of unusual and original sensations.
		The fast pace of zouk from Martinique and Guadeloupe, in its turn, is said to have been influenced by soukous from French Africa, via the close collaboration of zouk and soukous musicians in Paris.
	www2.rz.hu-berlin.de /fpm/texte/guilbau.htm (7850 words)

	Learn more about Timeline of trends in music (1980-1989) in the online encyclopedia. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		See also: List of years in music, Timeline of trends in music to 1899, Timeline of trends in music (1900-1949), Timeline of trends in music (1950-1969), Timeline of trends in music (1970-1979), Timeline of trends in music (1990-present)
		House music emerges from the club scene in Chicago and Detroit; a hip hop-influenced variant, hip house, also emerges
		Annbjørg Lien's Annbjørg is an influential revitalization of the Hardanger fiddle and its distinctive music
	www.onlineencyclopedia.org /t/ti/timeline_of_trends_in_music__1980_1989_.html (3034 words)

	Latin Jazz Network - Artists, Music, Articles, Events, Interviews, Reviews
		Narell, a serious student of Afro-Caribbean music, met his musical associates about 8 years ago on the island of Martinique (two of the band members are from Martinique; one hails from Guadeloupe).
		The band draws its main musical inspiration from biguine, the folkloric music of Martinique and Guadeloupe.
		Perhaps one way to appreciate Sakesho's music is to toss aside any preconceived notions you may have about jazz or French Caribbean music.
	www.latinjazznet.com /reviews/sakesho.htm (285 words)

	Dictionary music (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Music of Washington D.C. Music of Washington DC
		Music of immigrant communities in the United States
		Music of the Democratic Republic of the Congo
	www.dictionarydefinition.net /music.html (165 words)

	Caribbean Music and Musicians
		Caribbean folk and popular music are a mixture of West African and European (primarily Spanish) influences.
		In Cuba, the most important style of music is the son (sohn), a rural style of songs for dancing.
		Puerto Rican musical styles include the bomba, which uses a call-and-response format and has drum accompaniment, and the plena, which is a ballad (story song) style similar to some found in Mexico.
	www.sbgmusic.com /html/teacher/reference/cultures/caribbean.html (497 words)

	GUADELOUPE FACTS AND INFORMATION (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Guadeloupe is an archipelago in the eastern Caribbean_Sea, with a total area of 1,704 kmÂ².
		An ensuing settlement between Sweden and the British gave rise to the Guadeloupe_Fund.
		General Council - last held 22_March 1998 (next to be held by NA 2004); Regional Council - last held 15_March 1998 (next to be held NA 2004)
	www.igopay.com /Guadeloupe (827 words)

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