Bouyon music
Music genre
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Bouyon (pronunciation: boo-your) is a genre of Dominican music that originated in Dominica in the late 1980s. Prominent bouyon groups include Windward Caribbean Kulture (WCK); Roots, Stems and Branches (RSB); and First Serenade.[1]
- Jing ping
- Cadence-lypso
- traditional dances (bèlè, quadrille, Chanté mas, lapo kabwit)
- Mazurka
- Zouk
- Tambour bélé
- tambou lélé
- lapo kabwit
- chakchak (maracas)
- syak or gwaj (scraper-rattle)
- tambal or tanbou (tambourine)
- accordion
- acoustic drums
- rhythmic guitar
- keyboards
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"Hardcore bouyon", also called "Gwada-Bouyon," is another type of bouyon, different from the Dominican genre, which began through musical collaborations between citizens of Dominica and Guadeloupe, who both speak Antillean Creole. The term bouyon means something akin to "gumbo soup" or "coubouyon poisson" (a typical Caribbean dish) in Antillean Creole. Bouyon music is a mix of traditional and modern music,[2] and is popular across much of the Caribbean.
Origin
Bouyon blends jing ping, cadence-lypso and traditional dances, namely bèlè, quadrille, chanté mas and lapo kabwit, mazurka, zouk and other styles of Caribbean music.[3]
Offshoots
Jump up
In 1987, Exile One recorded a Chanté mas and Lapo Kabwit song, "L'hivernage", commonly referred to as the yo. The French Antilleans referred to the beat as "jump up music" because of its carnival style sound. This jump upbeat was later modified to become bouyon or modern soca music. (As printed on Exile One's album "creole attitude").[4] In Guadeloupe and Martinique, "Jump up" refers generally to bouyon music.
Bouyon soca
Bouyon soca is a fusion-genre that blends bouyon and soca music.
Bouyon-muffin
A modern offshoot of bouyon is bouyon-muffin. It combines elements of Jamaican raggamuffin music, hip hop, and dancehall. The most influential figure in the development of bouyon-muffin is "Skinny Banton" (now known as "Shadowflow") who from 1995 collaborated with the WCK band, using ragga influenced vocals to chant on top of bouyon rhythms. Songs like "party" ft Joanne with Bucktown sounds' DJ Cut gave the products of bouyon muffin like Bushtown clan, a further inspiration to incorporate more hip-hop and dancehall into the Bouyon-muffin genre to create "reketeng".[citation needed]