Guadeloupe by F. Deshayes

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Thursday, 26 February, 2015 - 09:21

Culture and Politics - - If we consider artists’ lot in Guadeloupe, we discover for instance that, apart from undeniable qualities that they manifest in their creations, professionalization is a two-side issue for them.

Domain: 
Pluridisciplinaire
Territory: 
Guadeloupe

First, the one of training, necessary to increase the quality of their productions. Let’s take the case of music. Music schools that flower indiscriminately here and there form part of a process that has just started to develop and whose results are not yet assessable on a large public of artists. Quite often, musicians acquire skills in a non academic way and the subject is largely dominated by a popular music where orality and improvisation are key. Gwoka has its schools and their spirited wrangles about different ways of playing, so much the better!

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