Description
Merengue, calypso, gombey, goombay, santería, mento, spirituals, gwoka, son, soul jazz, descarga, biguine, pachanga, cha-cha-chá, blues, konpa, contredanse, bomba, shuffle, quadrille, mambo, voodoo, soul, quelbe, worksong, rumba, waltz, son montuno?
Neglected, unknown, ignored, Caribbean music is nevertheless the basis of a large part of American music, which has conquered the world. Marked in turn by the United States, they have produced an irresistible magic from Cuba to New Orleans and from Martinique to Haiti to Jamaica. This anthology of music from the West Indies appears simultaneously with the reference book "Les Musiques des Caraïbes" (Le Castor Astral) by Bruno Blum, which revises and completes thirty booklets of Caribbean box sets published by Frémeaux et Associés. He has selected here the cream of the founding recordings of Caribbean styles from 1949 to 1972 for this competition anthology, with a very wide range.