Verse made to be spoken or sung in the African and Caribbean worlds, including Jamaican dub poetry that grew out of dub music, the Reunion Creole fonnker that conveys deep feeling in sung poetry, and Swahili taarab with its sung poetry and instrumental accompaniment. A genre belongs here when its cited article describes a poetic or sung tradition of Africa or the Caribbean and its diaspora in which performance is central. It excludes the oral and improvised folk verse of other regions, which has its own group.
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Wikipedia: Dub poetry
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Dub poetry is a form of performance poetry of Jamaican origin, which evolved out of dub music in Kingston, Jamaica, in the 1970s, as well as in London, England, and Toronto, Canada, cities which have large populations of Caribbean immigrants.
Fonnker, Wikipedia
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Fonnkèr is, in Réunion Creole, a state of mind specific to the people of the French overseas department of Réunion which conveys a deep feeling, a sense of love, happiness, bitterness, emotion, or thought.
Taarab, Wikipedia
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Taarab is a music genre popular in Tanzania and Kenya, and the wider Swahilisphere.
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