Topic summary
Music of Guadeloupe
- Anguilla
- Antigua and Barbuda
- Aruba and the Dutch Antilles
- Bahamas
- Barbados
- Bermuda
- Bonaire
- Cayman Islands
- Cuba
- Curaçao
- Dominica
- Dominican Republic
- French Guiana
- Grenada
- Guyana
- Haiti
- Jamaica
- Louisiana
- Martinique
- Montserrat
- Panama
- Puerto Rico
- St Kitts and Nevis
- St Lucia
- St Vincent and Grenadines
- Suriname
- Trinidad and Tobago
- Turks and Caicos
- Virgin Islands
The music of Guadeloupe encompasses a large popular music industry, which gained in international renown after the success of zouk music in the later 20th century. Zouk's popularity was particularly intense in France, where the genre became an important symbol of identity for Guadeloupe and Martinique. Zouk's origins are in the folk music of Guadeloupe and Martinique, especially Guadeloupan gwo ka and Martinican chouval bwa, and the pan-Caribbean calypso tradition.