1. For further information on zouk, see Philippe Conrath, “Kassav',” Paris: Seghersen, 1987; Jocelyne Guilbault, “On Interpreting Popular Music: Zouk in the West Indies,” inCaribbean Popular Culture, (John Lent, ed.), Bowling Green, Ohio: Bowling Green State University Popular Press, 1990:79–97, andZouk: World Music in the West Indies;and Gene Scaramuzzo “Zouk: Magic Music of the French Antilles,”Reggae and African Beat, 5, No. 4, 1986:27–31 and “The Magic of Kassav,“Reggae and African Beat, 6, No. 5/6, 1986:46–51.
2. It should be noted that the imports from the United States include not only American but, to a greater extent in this case, Haitian and Latin American music.