Musical Styles
Creolized European Music
Gláucia Nogueira and Graham Douglas During the 19thcentury, European music (polka, mazurka, waltz, gallop, etc) and other expressions related to dance styles (cotillon, contradança, quadrilha) arrived in Cabo Verde and were the usual types of entertainment until the 1940s. From that point on, they were supplanted by new musical trends. Read more…