A deep dive into the universe of Cabo-Verdean music in all its complexity.
Cabo-Verdean musical practices, on the islands or in other places where the diaspora has settled.
Personalities, instruments, stories, memories, documents, musical styles, dances, books, recordings, melodies, lyrics, photos, videos…
Preserving the memory in order to tell the history.
“(…) they suddenly all turned round and covering the path with their shawls, sung with great energy a wild song, beating time with their hands upon their legs. We threw them some vintems [coins], which were received with screams of laughter, and we left them redoubling the noise of their song.”
Charles Darwin in The Voyage of the Beagle, 1839,
about a batuku performance