The tradition
Maloya is a musical genre of Reunion island, usually sung in Reunionese Creole, and traditionally accompanied by percussion and a musical bow. Maloya is a new form that has origins in the music of African and Malagasy slaves and Indian indentured workers on the island, as has the other folk music of Reunion, séga. World music journalists and non-specialist scholars sometimes compare maloya to the American music, the blues, though they have little in common. Maloya was considered such a threat to the French state that it was banned in the 1970s.¶
The text above is adapted from the Wikipedia article “Maloya”, available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 licence.¶
maloya is music genre of Réunion, 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 8 external registers, which can be verified through the citation.1¶
What it mixes with
Artists and institutions
Sources
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| Source | Type | Publisher |
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| Wikidata: maloya (Q496929) | database | Wikidata |
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