Popular music in Barbados that was a fusion of Jamaican ska with Trinidadian calypso, with added influences by music from the UK and US, including sea shanties, hymns, and spirituals. Spouge instrumentation originally consisted of cowbell, bass guitar, trap set, and various other electronic and percussion instruments, later augmented with saxophone, trombone, and trumpets. Of these, the cowbell and the guitar are widely seen as the most integral part. 1960s.
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