Music of the former Netherlands Antilles The music of the former
Netherlands Antilles is a mixture of native, African and
European elements, and is closely connected with trends from
neighboring countries like Venezuela and Colombia and islands
like Puerto Rico, Cuba, Santo Domingo, Haiti, Martinique,
Trinidad, Dominica, and Guadeloupe. The former Netherlands
Antilles islands of Curaçao and Aruba are known for their
typical waltzes, danzas, mazurkas and a kind of music called
tumba, which is named after the conga drums which accompany it.
The remaining islands are much smaller than Aruba, Bonaire, and
Curaçao. They are Sint Eustatius, Sint Maarten and Saba. Sint
Eustatius has little nightlife, with only one nightclub (the
zouk Largo Height Disco) as of 1996. The inhabitants, Statians,
hold impromptu street dances called road blocks, using booming
car stereos. Saba has a number of dances at various restaurants,
including a wide variety of hip hop, disco, soca, Kompa, zouk,
bouyon, reggae and merengue. Sint Maa