zoukify
verbEtymology From zouk + -ify.
1
To make into zouk music, or to adapt to a zouk-like sound.
Of a piece of music or musical style
- Several artists have experimented with zoukifying the gwo ka group, but the undisputed king of the zouked-out gwo ka is Sartana.1987, The Reggae & African Beat, volumes 6-7, page 21:
- The band delivers fresh approaches to standard zouk rhythms (even a zoukified treatment of a kadrille in "Zouk Kadrye") that never sound formulaic.1995, The Beat, volume 14, page 34:
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- There have also been a few attempts at zoukified gwo ka – the best being by Sartana, Anzala and, back in the 1980s, an artist named Gerard Hubert.2000, World Music, volume 2, page 290:
- With the Paris recording studios as a common meeting ground, francophone musicians from Africa and the Caribbean gathered to exchange ideas and "zoukify" their respective pop music forms, placing an indelible mark on the soukous of Zaire/Congo, the makossa of Cameroon, and a host of others.2001 Gene Scaramuzzo, quoted in All Music Guide, page 903