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Encyclopedia > Zouk chouv

Zouk chouv is a musical genre of Martinique and Guadeloupe. It includes instrumentation from percussion, bamboo flute, accordion and wax-paper/comb-type kazoo. Zouk chouv evolved from chouval bwa, adding electric instrumentation. It has been popularized by musical artists such as Claude Germany, Tumpak, Dede Saint-Prix, and Pakatak.


See also: music of Martinique and Guadeloupe, Caribbean music


Zouk Chouv is also an album by Marce et Tumpak produced by Hibiscus Records. It is an album of dance music from the islands of Martinique and Guadeloupe.


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Zouk chouv - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (124 words)
Zouk chouv is a musical genre of Martinique and Guadeloupe.
Zouk chouv evolved from chouval bwa, adding electric instrumentation.
Zouk Chouv is also an album by Marce et Tumpak produced by Hibiscus Records.
Music of Martinique and Guadeloupe - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (1397 words)
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.
Elements of gwo ka, tambour, ti bwa and biguine vidé are prominent in zouk.
Zouk live shows soon began to draw on American and European rock and heavy metal traditions, and the genre spread across the world, primarily in developing countries.
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