11 Facts About Caribbean music

Some styles to gain wide popularity outside the Caribbean include, bachata, merenque, palo, mambo, denbo, baithak gana, bouyon, cadence-lypso, calypso, chutney, chutney-soca, compas, dancehall, jing ping, parang, pichakaree, punta, ragga, reggae, reggaeton, salsa, soca, and zouk.

Caribbean music is related to Central American and South American music.

That didn't sit well with either the natives or Spain's European neighbors; within a few years, bloody battles raged across the islands of the Caribbean music, fought by Spain, France, England, Denmark, and the Netherlands.

Complex deep origins of Caribbean music are best understood with a knowledge of Western Hemisphere colonial immigration patterns, human trafficking patterns, the resulting melting pot of people each of its nations and territories, and thus resulting influx of original musical influences.

Colonial Caribbean music ancestors were predominantly from West Africa, West Europe, and India.

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Divisions between Caribbean music genres are not always well-defined, because many of these genres share common relations, instrumentation and have influenced each other in many ways and directions.

Music from the Spanish-speaking areas of the Caribbean are classified as tropical music in the Latin music industry.

Shanto is a form of Guyanese Caribbean music, related to both calypso and mento, and became a major part of early popular Caribbean music through its use in Guyanese vaudeville shows; songs are topical and light-hearted, often accompanied by a guitar.

Folk Caribbean music is played with guitar, marimba and other instruments.

Mento is a form of Jamaican folk Caribbean music that uses topical lyrics with a humorous slant, commenting on poverty and other social issues.

Quelbe is a form of Virgin Islander folk Caribbean music that originated on St Croix, now most commonly performed by groups called scratch bands.