La Biguine

The narrator says that Biguine is “the music of our parents, our grandparents, and our great grandparents.”

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Polka is an urban rhythm from Africa.

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Slavery was abolished in the French colonies in 1865.

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Biguine comes from créole culture.

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Le bèlè is a rural rhythm from Martinique.

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Polka is typically danced with very little distance between the partners.

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La Biguine blended musical cultures in St. Pierre and Martinique after 1890.

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Biguine is not danced with a partner.

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Polka became the symbol of identity in the Antilles.

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The narrator says that Biguine is “perhaps the first gift that the French Antilles gave to the entire world.”

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