Compas | Wikipedia audio article

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00:00:34 1 Etymology and characteristics
00:01:09 2 History
00:02:58 2.1 Dance style
00:03:23 3 Mini-jazz or small bands
00:05:29 4 Méringue-compas or cadence and its derivatives
00:05:49 4.1 Zouk
00:06:27 4.2 Coladeira
00:07:22 4.3 Cadence-lypso
00:11:09 4.4 Soca
00:12:49 4.5 Kizomba
00:14:04 5 Notable compas bands and artists
00:14:13 6 See also



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SUMMARY
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Compas (Haitian Creole: konpa), or kompa, is a dance music and modern méringue in Haiti with African roots. The genre was popularized following the 1955 creation of the band Conjunto International by Nemours Jean-Baptiste. Compas is the main music of many countries such as Dominica and the French Antilles, etc. Whether it is called zouk where French Antilles artists of Martinique and Guadeloupe have taken it or compas in places where Haitian artists have toured, this méringue style is very influential in the Caribbean, Africa, Cape Verde, Portugal, France, part of Canada, South and North America.