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  2. Music of Jamaica - Wikipedia

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    The music of Jamaica includes Jamaican folk music and many popular genres, such as mento, ska, rocksteady, reggae, dub music, dancehall, reggae fusion and related styles. Reggae is especially popular through the fame of Bob Marley .

  3. Mento - Wikipedia

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    Jamaican Mento Music - site created by Michael Garnice (comprehensive information on the history and the musicians who made the music) Ivan Chin - Mento music's pages on mento pioneer Ivan Chin. The Mento dance is a Jamaican folk form dance with the instruments acoustic guitar, banjo, hand drums and the rhumba box

  4. Jamaican folk music - Wikipedia

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    Linkages from folk music to mento are described in Daniel T. Neely's dissertation, Mento, Jamaica's Original Music: Development, Tourism and the Nationalist Frame (New York University, 2007). Among the best known Jamaican folk songs are "Day-O (Banana Boat Song)", "Jamaica Farewell" (Iron Bar), and "Linstead Market".

  5. Category:Jamaican musical instruments - Wikipedia

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    Category for musical instruments of Jamaica. Pages in category "Jamaican musical instruments" This category contains only the following page.

  6. Junkanoo - Wikipedia

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    Junkanoo is a festival that was originated during the period of African chattel slavery in British American colonies.It is practiced most notably in The Bahamas, Jamaica and Belize, and historically in North Carolina and Miami, where there are significant settlements of West Indian people during the post-emancipation era.

  7. Category:Caribbean musical instruments - Wikipedia

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    Jamaican musical instruments (1 P) P. Puerto Rican musical instruments (1 C, 5 P) T. Trinidad and Tobago musical instruments (9 P) Pages in category "Caribbean ...

  8. List of Caribbean chordophones - Wikipedia

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    Used in popular son ensembles, where it replaced the more traditional marimbula and botija: cuatro [4] Dominican Republic: 321.322 Stringed instrument, part of some popular merengue groups' instrumentation cuatro [4] Puerto Rico: 321.322 Five-stringed instrument guitar [3] [5] Cuba: 321.322 Guitar, used for the Zapateo dance and other rural ...

  9. Kumina - Wikipedia

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    Kumina is an Afro-Jamaican religion, dance and music form. Kumina has practices that include secular ceremonies, dance and music that developed from the beliefs and traditions brought to the island by Kongo enslaved people and indentured labourers, from the Congo region of West Central Africa, during the post-emancipation era. [1]