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Cape Verdean Music

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The music of the Cape Verde islands: the aching morna and its lighter cousin coladeira, the accordion-and-scraper drive of funaná and the drum-and-dance batuque, all shaped by Portuguese song, West African rhythm and the emigrant's saudade.

Cape Verde · emerged 1600s · peak 20th century

Also called: music of cape verde, música cabo-verdiana

History

An Atlantic crossroads of enslaved Africans and Portuguese settlers produced hybrid forms from the seventeenth century; independence in 1975 lifted the colonial ban on funaná, and Cesária Évora carried morna to the world in the 1990s.

What it sounds like

Saudade and the emigrant's longing
Portuguese guitar and cavaquinho
Accordion and ferrinho in funaná
Drum and dance circles in batuque

Beneath it: batuque, coladeira, funaná, morna

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