Nowadays, kawina is an increasingly secularized and professionalized genre highly responsive to the influences of the globalized Western music industry. The lyrics typically refer to everyday life, and the sing
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I further reflected, What a beautiful individual, so uniquely loved and appreciated. She had indeed devoted her life to the service of others—a real seinte. And, I thought, a bridge builder, someone who met others at the crossroads of Vodou's healing arts. XXIX Foreword to the 2"'" ...