Music of Seychelles, the Glossary

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1. 23 relations: Benga music, Country dance, England, Folk music, India, Indian Ocean, Jean-Marc Volcy, Kenya, List of Seychellois musicians, Mauritius, Mazurka, Montea, Percussion instrument, Polka, Polynesia, Réunion, Reggae, Sega (genre), Seggae, Seychelles, Soukous, Taarab, Zouk.

Benga music

Benga is a genre of Kenyan popular music.

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Country dance

A country dance is any of a very large number of social dances of a type that originated in the British Isles; it is the repeated execution of a predefined sequence of figures, carefully designed to fit a fixed length of music, performed by a group of people, usually in couples, in one or more sets.

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England

England is a country that is part of the United Kingdom.

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Folk music

Folk music is a music genre that includes traditional folk music and the contemporary genre that evolved from the former during the 20th-century folk revival.

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India

India, officially the Republic of India (ISO), is a country in South Asia.

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Indian Ocean

The Indian Ocean is the third-largest of the world's five oceanic divisions, covering or approx.

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Jean-Marc Volcy

Jean-Marc Volcy (born January 29, 1966) is a Seychellois composer, performer and songwriter regarded as one of the pioneering musicians to propagate creole music in Seychelles.

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Kenya

Kenya, officially the Republic of Kenya (Jamhuri ya Kenya), is a country in East Africa.

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List of Seychellois musicians

This is a list of notable Seychellois musicians.

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Mauritius

Mauritius, officially the Republic of Mauritius, is an island nation in the Indian Ocean, about off the southeastern coast of East Africa, east of Madagascar.

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Mazurka

The Mazurka (Polish: mazurek) is a Polish musical form based on stylised folk dances in triple meter, usually at a lively tempo, with character defined mostly by the prominent mazur's "strong accents unsystematically placed on the second or third beat".

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Montea

Moutya or Moutia, is a traditional African dance similar to the Sega, but with often more pronounced suggestive movements.

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Percussion instrument

A percussion instrument is a musical instrument that is sounded by being struck or scraped by a beater including attached or enclosed beaters or rattles struck, scraped or rubbed by hand or struck against another similar instrument.

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Polka

Polka is a dance style and genre of dance music originating in nineteenth-century Bohemia, now part of the Czech Republic.

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Polynesia

Polynesia is a subregion of Oceania, made up of more than 1,000 islands scattered over the central and southern Pacific Ocean.

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Réunion

La Réunion, "La Reunion"; La Réunion; Reunionese Creole; previously known as Île Bourbon.

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Reggae

Reggae is a music genre that originated in Jamaica in the late 1960s.

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Sega (genre)

Sega (Séga) is one of the major music genres of Mauritius and Réunion.

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Seggae

Seggae is a fusion genre of sega, the traditional music of the Mascarene Islands, and reggae.

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Seychelles

Seychelles, officially the Republic of Seychelles (République des Seychelles; Seychellois Creole: Repiblik Sesel), is an island country and archipelagic state consisting of 115 islands (as per the Constitution) in the Indian Ocean.

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Soukous

Soukous (from French secousse, "shock, jolt, jerk") is a genre of dance music originating from the Democratic Republic of the Congo (formerly Zaire) and the Republic of the Congo (formerly French Congo).

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Taarab

Taarab is a music genre popular in Tanzania and Kenya.

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Zouk

Zouk is a musical movement pioneered by the French Antillean band Kassav' in the early 1980s.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Music_of_Seychelles

Also known as Music of the Seychelles, Seychellois music, Seychellos music.