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Music scholars, journalists, audiences, record industry individuals, politicians, nationalists and demagogues may often have occasion to address which fields of folk music are distinct traditions based along racial, geographic, linguistic, religious, tribal or ethnic lines, and all such peoples will likely use different criteria to decide what ...
The music of Jamaica includes Jamaican folk music and many popular genres, such as mento, ska, rocksteady, reggae, dub music, dancehall, reggae fusion and related styles. Mento, often considered Jamaica's first popular music genre, developed in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
Pages in category "Caribbean music genres" The following 21 pages are in this category, out of 21 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. A. Areíto; B.
Dominica's folk musical heritage includes work songs, storytelling, children's music and masquerade songs. Dominican work songs are accompanied by the tambou twavay drum, and are performed by workers while gathering fruit, building roads, fishing, moving a house or sawing wood. Many are responsorial, and are generally short and simple, with the ...
The music of Barbados includes distinctive national styles of folk and popular music, including elements of Western classical and religious music.The culture of Barbados is a syncretic mix of African and British elements, and the island's music reflects this mix through song types and styles, instrumentation, dances, and aesthetic principles.
Caribbean-British; Immigrants to Australia; Immigrants to the United States; Indian-British; Indo-Caribbean; Irish- and Scottish-Canadian; Irish- and Scottish-American; Latino-American; Tex-Mex and Tejano
This is a list of notable recording artists known for performing various types of Caribbean music. Antigua and Barbuda. Burning Flames; El-A-Kru; The Bahamas
Regional and national music with no significant commercial impact abroad, except when it is a version of an international genre, such as: traditional music, oral traditions, sea shanties, work songs, nursery rhymes, Arabesque and indigenous music.