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  2. List of Caribbean aerophones - Wikipedia

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    Used in traditional calypso: flute [1] Dominican Republic: 4 Used to accompany upper-class merengue in the later 19th century harmonium [7] Indo-Caribbean: 4 Used in chutney music: kartal [7] Trinidad and Tobago: 4 Harmonium, used in chutney: lambis [5] Haiti: 423.11 Conch shell horn, used for signalling saxophone [3] Garifuna music: 4 Used in ...

  3. Calypso music - Wikipedia

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    Calypso in the Caribbean includes a range of genres, including benna in Antigua and Barbuda; mento, a style of Jamaican folk music that greatly influenced ska, the precursor to rocksteady, and reggae; spouge, a style of Barbadian popular music; Dominica cadence-lypso, which mixed calypso with the cadence of Haiti; and soca music, a style of ...

  4. Music of Trinidad and Tobago - Wikipedia

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    The music drew upon the West African Kaiso and French/European influences, and arose as a means of communication among the enslaved Africans. Kaiso is still used today as a synonym for calypso in Trinidad and some other islands, often by traditionalists, and is also used as a cry of encouragement for a performer, similar to bravo or olé.

  5. Music of Antigua and Barbuda - Wikipedia

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    He started out writing songs and performing in the calypso genre. In the 1970s, he began experimenting with calypso by blending it with the local chutney — the music of Trinidad's East Indian population — using instruments such as the sitar and tabla. The style was dubbed "soca".

  6. List of musical instruments - Wikipedia

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    An assortment of musical instruments in an Istanbul music store. This is a list of musical instruments , including percussion, wind, stringed, and electronic instruments. Percussion instruments (idiophones, membranophones, struck chordophones, blown percussion instruments)

  7. Music of Saint Vincent and the Grenadines - Wikipedia

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    Calypso, with its satirical and socio-political lyrics, was developed in the 18th century as a fusion of African and French music styles. It eventually accompanied the rise of steelpan music. Steelpan were imported to Saint Vincent quickly. Calypso's political lyrics have continued to be an important part of the genre.

  8. Mento - Wikipedia

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    Jamaica - In Calypso: A World Music, a site created by Historical Museum of Southern Florida about calypso and mento; Jamaican Mento Music - site created by Michael Garnice (comprehensive information on the history and the musicians who made the music) Ivan Chin - Mento music's pages on mento pioneer Ivan Chin. The Mento dance is a Jamaican ...

  9. Music of the Virgin Islands - Wikipedia

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    From its neighbors, the Virgin Islands has imported various pan-Caribbean genres of music, including calypso music and soca music from Trinidad and reggae from Jamaica. The major indigenous form of music is the scratch band (also called ''Fungi band'' in the British Virgin Islands), which use improvised instruments like gourds and washboards to ...

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