Cadence rampa (Haitian Creole: kadans ranpa, [kadãs ɣãpa]), or simply kadans, is a dance music and modern méringue popularized in the Caribbean by the virtuoso Haitian sax player Webert Sicot in the early 1960s.
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Cadence rampa (Haitian Creole: kadans ranpa, [kadãs ɣãpa]), or simply kadans, is a dance music and modern méringue popularized in the Caribbean by the virtuoso Haitian sax player Webert Sicot in the early 1960s.
01 · What it is
Music
Vocal, percussive, or instrumental sound tradition carried by community performers.
02 · Where & name
Haiti
Written in its own script on record as Kadans · kadans ranpa.
03 · How it is doing
□□□□ (Not yet assessed)
Documented in open cultural records, but no cited field assessment of its current vitality has been added here yet.
04 · Proof & reuse
1 cited source
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Common Questions Answered on Record
What is cadence rampa in plain words?
Cadence rampa (Haitian Creole: kadans ranpa, [kadãs ɣãpa]), or simply kadans, is a dance music and modern méringue popularized in the Caribbean by the virtuoso Haitian sax player Webert Sicot in the early 1960s. In local script on record, it is written Kadans.
Where is cadence rampa practised or documented?
Sources on this page place cadence rampa in Haiti.
What is the current condition of cadence rampa today?
□□□□ (Not yet assessed): Documented in open cultural records, but no cited field assessment of its current vitality has been added here yet.
How do I cite or share this cadence rampa entry?
Cite as: "cadence rampa." folkroom, https://folkroom.org/art-forms/cadence-rampa, text CC BY-SA, with attribution.
Cadence rampa (Haitian Creole: kadans ranpa, [kadãs ɣãpa]), or simply kadans, 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.
Cadence and compas are two names for the same Haitian modern méringue.
The text above is adapted from the Wikipedia article “Cadence rampa”, available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 licence.
cadence rampa is genre of méringue music, according to the structured record cited below. This entry was generated automatically from that record and has not yet been reviewed by a person familiar with the tradition. 1
The source record links this tradition to 4 external registers, which can be verified through the citation. 1
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