Bélé
Folk dance and music from Dominica and other Caribbean Island nations / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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A Bélé is a folk dance and music from Dominica, Grenada, Guadeloupe, Haiti, Martinique, Saint Lucia, and Trinidad and Tobago. It may be the oldest Creole dance of the creole French West Indian Islands, and it strongly reflects influences from African fertility dances. It is performed most commonly during full moon evenings, or sometimes during funeral wakes (Antillean Creole: lavèyé). In Tobago, it is thought to have been performed by women of the planter class at social events in the planters' great houses, and the dress and dance style copied by the enslaved people who worked in or around these houses .
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Stylistic origins | West African music |
Cultural origins | Late 17th century, Dominica, Grenada, Guadeloupe, Haiti, Martinique, Saint Lucia, and Trinidad and Tobago |
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The term bélé also refers to a kind of drum found on the music of Caribbean countries and islands like Dominica, Haiti, Martinique and Saint Lucia.