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Fond-des-Blancs, Fond-des-Nègres: Peasant Music from Haïti

Music of the world

The Creole spirit adapts itself as easily and gracefully to the old French dances, like the Menuet or the Contredanse, as to the Spanish Meringue, while keeping its most ancient African heritage in Vodoo songs, while the diatonic accordeon is the neighbour of the bands of bamboo trumpets