Bouyon and diaspora: the sound of home, far from home
Everywhere Dominicans and Antilleans live, bouyon travels in suitcases and in phones: New York and Brooklyn, London, Toronto, Montreal. For the diaspora, a bouyon track is a piece of home.
Diaspora parties
Caribbean nights in the big cities mix bouyon, soca, dancehall and zouk, but the bouyon moment keeps its particular charge: it is the sound of Roseau, of Grand Bay and of Mas Domnik. Social networks have replaced the cassettes of the past: a riddim born in Dominica goes around the world in a few hours.
A strategic audience
The diaspora consumes, shares and finances modern bouyon. It is for them too that Bouyon Shattaz publishes in English as well as in French, and that this site exists in two languages.
Listen to bouyon now
The Bouyon Road Mix by Bouyon Shattaz collects new bouyon releases and carnival classics on Spotify and YouTube.
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