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Bouyon
Bouyon, a name meaning soup, is a dance music genre from Dominica created by the band WCK in the late 1980s, blending cadence-lypso, jing ping, soca, and dancehall.
Calypso music
Originating in Trinidad and Tobago, calypso is an Afro-Caribbean music genre rooted in West African kaiso, used as the national folk song and a platform for social commentary.
Dennery Segment
Dennery Segment is a fast-paced soca subgenre born in the village of Dennery, Saint Lucia, in the early 2010s, blending kuduro, dancehall, and Kwéyòl lyrics.
Gully Side
Gully Side is the Jamaican dancehall camp and fan identity built around the deejay Mavado, named for the gully through his Cassava Piece community in Kingston.
Lovers rock
Lovers rock is a romantic, R&B-influenced style of reggae that emerged in 1970s London, created largely by young Black Britons and sung mostly by women.
Rub-a-dub (music genre)
Rub-a-dub is a stripped-down, bass-heavy, echo-laden style of reggae built on deejay toasting over instrumental riddims, the early 1980s phase of Jamaican dancehall that ended when digital riddims arrived in 1985.
Steppers
Steppers is a reggae drum pattern with the bass drum on all four beats, credited to Sly Dunbar and the Channel One studio bands of mid-1970s Kingston.