Kontradans
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This article is about the Haitian folk music. For the original European form, see Contra dance.
Kontradans or the French-Haitian Contredanse,[1] is creolized dance music formed in the 18th century in the French colony of Saint-Domingue (Haiti)[2] that evolved from the English contra dance, or (country dance), which eventually spread throughout the Caribbean, Louisiana, Europe and the rest of the New World from the Creoles of Saint-Domingue.[3][4]