A type of dance music from the island of Reunion was considered such a threat to the French state in the 1970s that it was banned. Maloya music is now becoming popular around the world - and is being used to express the anger of a new generation, reports the BBC.
It is a hot Sunday morning on Reunion, an island out in the Indian Ocean that is a part of France, an overseas departement.
And in the little fishing port of Terre Saint, they are holding an annual free festival known as Ris Sofe, named after the Creole word for the rice dish that the sugar cane workers used to eat before heading out for the fields that stretch up towards the volcano in the centre of the island.
Down by the pier, there are stalls where the wives of fishermen are of course selling Ris Sofe - rice, mixed with hot peppers, sausages and fish.
The beer tent is doing brisk business and there is a crowd of several hundred, from teenagers to old men in suits and straw hats, gathered around a little stage watching a furiously energetic performance from a celebrated local singer.
Firmin Viry is now in his late 70s. But you would not think so as he dances across the stage accompanied by drummers and his own kayamb, a traditional tray-like percussion instrument made from cane stalks.
He was once a sugar cane worker himself and then spent 20 years working in a cigarette factory, but now he is famous for his songs and albums.
And yet, just 33 years ago, he would have been arrested for singing like this.
The police would have broken up the concert and smashed all the instruments because Viry is an exponent of maloya, a musical style that was banned by the French authorities.
It was particularly hated, so Viry says, by President Giscard d'Estaing.
Read more of this report from the BBC.