"Zouk Is the Only Medicine We Need": Kassav and the Cultural Politics of Music in the French Caribbean.
This article demonstrates how the history of Kassav, the French Caribbean music group founded in 1979, sheds light on the cultural politics of French Caribbean music and the history of "global France." It argues that Kassav's music represents an inventive cultural and commercial response to patterns...
| Publicado en: | French Historical Studies Vol. 45; no. 2; pp. 319 - 354 |
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Duke University Press
Apr2022
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