{
  "name": "French Caribbean Music",
  "description": "Music from the French Antilles (Martinique, Guadeloupe, Dominica, Saint Lucia) and from Haiti.",
  "url": "https://rateyourmusic.com/genre/french-caribbean-music/",
  "parent": "Caribbean Music",
  "level": "sub-2",
  "children_count": 10,
  "children": [
    {
      "name": "Bele",
      "url": "https://rateyourmusic.com/genre/bele/",
      "description": "Drum-based folkdance with a strong Afro-influence, conducted by duos of dancers and accompanied by call-and-response singing, particularly popular in Martinique, Dominica and Trinidad and Tobago.",
      "level": "sub-3",
      "parent": "French Caribbean Music"
    },
    {
      "name": "Biguine",
      "url": "https://rateyourmusic.com/genre/biguine/",
      "description": "Dating back to the 19th century; originating as a fusion of traditional Bele music with Polka.",
      "level": "sub-3",
      "parent": "French Caribbean Music"
    },
    {
      "name": "Bouyon",
      "url": "https://rateyourmusic.com/genre/bouyon/",
      "description": "With a name translating to \"broth\", this fast-paced genre from Dominica originated as a blend of various traditional and modern Caribbean styles.",
      "level": "sub-3",
      "parent": "French Caribbean Music"
    },
    {
      "name": "Cadence lypso",
      "url": "https://rateyourmusic.com/genre/cadence-lypso/",
      "description": "Caribbean genre originating in the 1970s, combining elements of Haiti's Cadence rampa and Compas with Trinidad's Calypso.",
      "level": "sub-3",
      "parent": "French Caribbean Music"
    },
    {
      "name": "Dennery Segment",
      "url": "https://rateyourmusic.com/genre/dennery-segment/",
      "description": "Developed in Saint Lucia in the early 2010s; heavily influenced by Angolan Kuduro, as well as incorporating elements of Zouk and Lucian drums alongside suggestive lyrics usually sung in Kwéyòl (Saint Lucian Creole).",
      "level": "sub-3",
      "parent": "French Caribbean Music"
    },
    {
      "name": "Gwo ka",
      "url": "https://rateyourmusic.com/genre/gwo-ka/",
      "description": "Developed in the island of Guadeloupe; driven by a group of gwo ka drums.",
      "level": "sub-3",
      "parent": "French Caribbean Music"
    },
    {
      "name": "Haitian Music",
      "url": "https://rateyourmusic.com/genre/haitian-music/",
      "description": "Encompasses the styles of music developed by the Haitian people.",
      "level": "sub-3",
      "parent": "French Caribbean Music"
    },
    {
      "name": "Kréyol djaz",
      "url": "https://rateyourmusic.com/genre/kreyol-djaz/",
      "description": "Combines Jazz with various styles of French Caribbean Music.",
      "level": "sub-3",
      "parent": "French Caribbean Music"
    },
    {
      "name": "Tumbélé",
      "url": "https://rateyourmusic.com/genre/tumbele/",
      "description": "Combines Haitian Compas, Soukous and Cuban Guaguancó with the local style of Biguine.",
      "level": "sub-3",
      "parent": "French Caribbean Music"
    },
    {
      "name": "Zouk",
      "url": "https://rateyourmusic.com/genre/zouk/",
      "description": "Fast-paced danceable pop that began in early 1980s French Antilles, merging and updating more traditional local genres.",
      "level": "sub-3",
      "parent": "French Caribbean Music"
    }
  ]
}