{{Short description|Antillean music style}} {{Infobox music genre | name = Wabap | image = | caption = | stylistic_origins = {{ubl|Bebop|Afro-Cuban jazz|traditional biguine}} | cultural_origins = Guadeloupe, French Caribbean, c. 1950 | instruments = {{hlist|Trombone|trumpet|saxophone|piano|bass guitar||guitar|drums}} | derivatives = | fusiongenres = Zouk {{Audio sample | type = single | file = Aimer_Moune_Rivel_with_Al_Livrat.ogg | description = "Aimer" by Moune de Rivel featuring Al Lirvat et son Orchestre }} }}
'''Wabap''' (or simply '''biguine wabap''') is a subgenre of biguine, a Caribbean music style.
== Etymology ==
The name derives from the traditional refrain ''wiz-zap wabap'' sung by sugarcane cutters.<ref>Jean-Michel Terrine (ill.), Lionel Arnaud, ''La politique des tambours'', Éditions Karthala, 2020, p. 40, ISBN 9782811128470</ref>
== History == According to Al Lirvat, the term was coined by Nelly Lunflas, a revue leader at La Canne à Sucre.<ref>Frédéric Négrit, ''Musique et immigration dans la société antillaise : en France métropolitaine de 1960 à nos jours'' (L'Harmattan, 2004), p.119</ref> The first wabap recordings were made in 1952 by Al Lirvat and Robert Mavounzy. In 1954, a piece by Lirvat sung by Moune de Rivel was titled "Biguine Wabap".<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.lameca.org/dossiers/biguine_paris/biguine07.htm |title=Available on the Médiathèque Caraïbe website |access-date=2025-06-08 |archive-date=2013-06-02 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130602021239/http://www.lameca.org/dossiers/biguine_paris/biguine07.htm |url-status=dead }}</ref>
== Musical characteristics ==
Wabap incorporates into biguine a number of assonances and dissonances, altered chords, and complex rhythms in five, six, and seven beats.<ref>Jacques Denis, in ''Vibrations'', reproduced on the [http://www.fremeaux.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=3199&Itemid=341 Frémeaux & Associés website]</ref> Banjo disappeared in wabap and it was replaced by guitar.
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