zoukify

zoukify

English

Etymology

zouk +‎ -ify

Verb

zoukify (third-person singular simple present zoukifies, present participle zoukifying, simple past and past participle zoukified)

1. (of a piece of music or musical style) To make into zouk music, or to adapt to a zouk-like sound.
   • 1987, The Reggae & African Beat, volumes 6-7, page 21:

     Several artists have experimented with zoukifying the gwo ka group, but the undisputed king of the zouked-out gwo ka is Sartana.

   • 1995, The Beat, volume 14, page 34:

     The band delivers fresh approaches to standard zouk rhythms (even a zoukified treatment of a kadrille in "Zouk Kadrye") that never sound formulaic.

   • 2000, World Music, volume 2, page 290:

     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.

   • 2001 Gene Scaramuzzo, quoted in All Music Guide, page 903:

     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.