Topic summary
Zouk
- Anguilla
- Antigua and Barbuda
- Aruba and the Dutch Antilles
- Bahamas
- Barbados
- Bermuda
- Bonaire
- Cayman Islands
- Cuba
- Curaçao
- Dominica
- Dominican Republic
- French Guiana
- Grenada
- Guadeloupe
- Guyana
- Haiti
- Jamaica
- Louisiana
- Montserrat
- Panama
- Puerto Rico
- St Kitts and Nevis
- St Lucia
- St Vincent and Grenadines
- Suriname
- Trinidad and Tobago
- Turks and Caicos
- Virgin Islands
Zouk is a musical movement and dance pioneered by the French Antillean band Kassav' in the early 1980s. It was originally characterized by a fast tempo (120–145 bpm), a percussion-driven rhythm, and a loud horn section. Musicians from Martinique and Guadeloupe eventually added MIDI instrumentation to their compas style, which developed into a genre called zouk-love. Zouk-love is effectively the French Lesser Antilles' compas, and it gradually became indistinguishable from compas.