cadence rampa
{{Short description|Dance music genre}}
{{Infobox music genre
| name = Cadence rampa
| native_name = Kadans, kadans ranpa
| other_names = Cadence
| stylistic_origins = Méringue
| cultural_origins = Early 1960s, Haiti
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Cadence rampa ({{langx|ht|kadans ranpa}}, {{IPA|ht|kadãs ɣãpa|}}), or simply kadans,{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=_7NIe_I298MC&q=history+of+twoubadou+cuba&pg=PA156 |title=Caribbean Currents: Caribbean Music from Rumba to Reggae |author=Manuel, Peter with Kenneth Bilby, Michael Largey |page=161 |year=2006 |publisher=Temple University Press |access-date=8 March 2014|isbn=9781592134649 }} is a dance music and modern méringue popularized in the Caribbean by the virtuoso Haitian sax player Webert Sicot in the early 1960s. Cadence rampa was one of the sources of cadence-lypso.{{Cite book |chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=liV8AwAAQBAJ&pg=PA96 |pages=96–9 |last=Rabess |first=Gregory |chapter=Cadence-Lypso |title=Bloomsbury Encyclopedia of Popular Music of the World |volume=9 |editor=John Shepherd, David Horn |publisher=Bloomsbury Publishing |year=2014 |isbn=9781441132253}} Genres: Caribbean and Latin America.{{Cite book |url=https://archive.org/details/zoukworldmusicin00guil |url-access=registration |page=[https://archive.org/details/zoukworldmusicin00guil/page/50 50] |first=Jocelyne |last=Guilbault |title=Zouk: World Music in the West Indies |publisher=University of Chicago Press |year=1993 |isbn=9780226310428}}
Cadence and compas are two names for the same Haitian modern méringue.
Ethnology
Cadence rampa literally means rampart rhythm.{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=liV8AwAAQBAJ&q=kadans+rampa+means&pg=PA414 |title=Bloomsbury Encyclopedia of Popular Music of the World, Volume 9: Genres Caribbean and Latin America |author1=Shepherd, John |author2=Horn, David |date=24 April 2014 |page=414 |publisher=Bloomsbury |isbn=9781441132253 |access-date=27 January 2015}}
History
Webert Sicot left Nemours Jean-Baptiste's compas band and called his music cadence to differentiate it from compas especially when he took it abroad, and so the rivalry between Sicot and Nemours created these names. Sicot created a new rhythm, cadence rampa, to counter compas, but it was only in a spirit of competition. The rhythm of cadence rampa was identical to compas except for the addition of the second drum that sounded on every fourth beat.{{cite book|url=https://archive.org/details/zoukworldmusicin0000guil |url-access=registration |quote=kadans. |title=Zouk: World Music in the West Indies |publisher=University of Chicago Press |author=Guilbault, Jocelyne |page=[https://archive.org/details/zoukworldmusicin0000guil/page/71 71] |access-date=29 November 2014|isbn=9780226310411 |date=1993-11-15 }}
In the 1930s several biguine artists from Martinique and Guadeloupe moved to France, where they achieved great popularity in Paris, especially in the wake of the colonial exhibition in 1931. Early stars like Alexandre Stellio and Sam Castandet became popular in Paris. Between the 1930s and 1950s, the dance beguine was popular among the islands' dance orchestras.{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=liV8AwAAQBAJ&pg=PA54|title=Martinique biguine|date=24 April 2014|publisher=Bloomsbury Encyclopedia of Popular Music of the World, Volume 9|isbn=9781441132253|access-date=6 March 2014}} Its popularity abroad died relatively quickly, but it lasted as a major force in popular music in Martinique and Guadeloupe until Haitian cadence and compas took over in the 1950s. In the later part of the 20th century, biguine musicians like clarinet virtuoso Michel Godzom helped revolutionize the genre. The signature sound of the biguine is the interplay between the clarinet and trombone, both solo and as a duet, which can still be heard today throughout Antilles music, from the most traditional forms like cadence or the pop sounds of today's zouk.{{cite book|title=Garland Encyclopedia of World Music|chapter=Indo-Caribbean Music|first=Peter|last=Manuel|pages=918|publisher=Garland Publishing|location=New York and London|year=2001|isbn=0-8240-6040-7|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zum3tjlsEmU |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/varchive/youtube/20211213/zum3tjlsEmU |archive-date=2021-12-13 |url-status=live}}{{cbignore}}{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Se0ozsSexmEC&dq=biguine+evolution&pg=PA54 |title=Zouk: World Music in the West Indies |author=Guilbault, Jocelyne |page=111 |year=1993 |publisher=University of Chicago Press |isbn=9780226310428 |access-date=20 January 2014}}
The Sicot brothers, Maestro Webert Sicot and composer Raymond Sicot, are well regarded in the Caribbean for their rigorous harmonic skills. They introduced the méringue-cadence to the Caribbean, specifically the French Antilles of Martinique and Guadeloupe around 1962, from where it spread to Dominica.Jocelyne Guilbault, pages 82-83 From the 60s to the 70s, Dominica, Guadeloupe and Martinique were replete with cadence bands like Selecta, La Perfecta, Les Aiglons, Grammacks, Exile One, Les Vikings de Guadeloupe, and Abel Zenon et son combo.{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=QzX8THIgRjUC&q=haitian+bossa+nova&pg=PA294 |title=World Music: Latin & North America, Caribbean, India, Asia and Pacific |author1=Broughton, Simon |author2=Ellingham, Mark |author3=Trillo, Richard |year=1999 |page=294 |publisher=Rough Guides |isbn=9781858286365 |access-date= 21 December 2014}}
Style
Cadence music is characterized by a constant uptempo rhythm, hence the name cadence. Its percussive aspect comes from the drum (in particular, the steady one-beat bass drum), an accentuated use of cymbals and, to a lesser extent, the high hat plus a distinct beat of the cowbell, tok, to-tok, tok-tok-tok, and a conga drum beating a dash of méringue.
See also
References
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Category:20th-century music genres