maloya
Sign in to saveMaloya is one of the two major music genres of Réunion, usually sung in Réunion Creole, and traditionally accompanied by percussion and a musical bow. Maloya is a new form that has origins in the music of African and Malagasy slaves and Indian indentured workers on the island, as has the other folk music of Réunion, séga. World music journalists and non-specialist scholars sometimes compare maloya to the American music, the blues, though they have little in common. Maloya was considered such a threat to the French state that it was banned in the 1970s.
Key facts
- Music genre.regional_scenes
- Réunion
- Music genre.name
- Maloya
- Music genre.image
- Simangavol2.JPG
- Music genre.instruments
- Vocals, percussion, musical bow
- Intangible heritage.ICH
- Maloya
- Intangible heritage.State Party
- France
- Intangible heritage.ID
- 00249
- Intangible heritage.Year
- 2009
- Intangible heritage.Session
- 4th
- Intangible heritage.List
- Representative
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Maloya is one of the two major music genres of Réunion, usually sung in Réunion Creole, and traditionally accompanied by percussion and a musical bow. Maloya is a new form that has origins in the music of African and Malagasy slaves and Indian indentured workers on the island, as has the other folk music of Réunion, séga. World music journalists and non-specialist scholars sometimes compare maloya to the American music, the blues, though they have little in common. Maloya was considered such a threat to the French state that it was banned in the 1970s.
==Description== Compared to séga, which employs numerous string and wind European instruments, traditional maloya uses only percussion and the musical bow. Maloya songs employ a call-response structure.