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Prehistoric music. Prehistoric music (previously called primitive music) is a term in the history of music for all music produced in preliterate cultures (prehistory), beginning somewhere in very late geological history. Prehistoric music is followed by ancient music in different parts of the world, but still exists in isolated areas.
agogô [1] agogó. Lucumí ( Cuba) and other Yoruba traditions throughout the Caribbean and Brazil. 111.221. Hoe blade, struck with a nail or other heavy object. akanikã [1] Abakuá ( Cuba ) 111.242.222. Belt with many attached bells.
An idiophone is any musical instrument that creates sound primarily by the vibration of the instrument itself, without the use of air flow (as with aerophones), strings (chordophones), membranes (membranophones) or electricity (electrophones). It is the first of the four main divisions in the original Hornbostel–Sachs system of musical ...
A Jew's harp. A lamellophone (also lamellaphone or linguaphone) is a member of the family of musical instruments that makes its sound by a thin vibrating plate called a lamella or tongue, which is fixed at one end and has the other end free. When the musician depresses the free end of a plate with a finger or fingernail, and then allows the ...
The music of Guatemala is diverse. Music is played all over the country. Towns also have wind and percussion bands that play during the lent and Easter-week processions as well as on other occasions. The marimba is an important instrument in Guatemalan traditional songs. The oldest documented use of marimba in the Americas dates to 1680 during ...
List of individual body parts. This is a list of notable body parts of people. It includes specific, individual instances of organs and appendages which are famous in their own regard. Many noted body parts are of dubious provenance [ 1] and most were separated from their bodies post-mortem. [ 2]
Artis the Spoonman (born 1948) is a Seattle street performer who was featured in the Soundgarden song " Spoonman ". Duncan Campbell (born 1958) of UB40 is a British Reggae singer, and was once the only registered spoon player with the Musicians' Union in the United Kingdom. Noel Crombie (born 1953) incorporates spoons in his music.
Post-mortem photography is the practice of photographing the recently deceased. Various cultures use and have used this practice, though the best-studied area of post-mortem photography is that of Europe and America. [1] There can be considerable dispute as to whether individual early photographs actually show a dead person or not, often ...