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  2. Garifuna music - Wikipedia

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    Garifuna music is an ethnic music and dance with African, Arawak, and Kalinago elements, originating with the Afro-Indigenous Garifuna people from Central America and Saint Vincent and the Grenadines. In 2001, Garifuna music, dance, and language were collectively proclaimed as a Masterpiece of the Oral and Intangible Heritage of Humanity by ...

  3. Lebeha Drumming Center - Wikipedia

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    Hopkins is a small coastal Garifuna community in the Stann Creek District of southern Belize. The center exists with the goals of keeping Garifuna music alive, passing traditional music along to young people in the community, and sharing music with visitors to Hopkins. The center’s focus is on traditional percussion music, though guitars have ...

  4. Punta - Wikipedia

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    Aerophones are instruments that create sound through vibrating air within a column or tube, like pipes and horns. [9] Other instruments used in the Garifuna culture include calabash rattles called shakkas (chaka) and conch-shell trumpets. The two principle Garifuna instruments are single-headed drums known as the primera and segunda. [1]

  5. Garifuna - Wikipedia

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    The Garifuna people (/ ˌ ɡ ɑːr iː ˈ f uː n ə / GAR-ee-FOO-nə [3] [4] or Spanish pronunciation: [ɡa'ɾifuna]; pl. Garínagu [5] in Garifuna) [a] are a people of mixed free African and Amerindian ancestry that originated in the Caribbean island of Saint Vincent and traditionally speak Garifuna, an Arawakan language.

  6. Paranda (music) - Wikipedia

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    Paranda is both a Garifuna rhythm and music with Arawak and African elements which utilizes rhythmic ostinatos in duple meter. Similar to punta, the paranda is a slower rhythm than punta. Paranda mainly focuses on the struggles that occurs in the Garifuna community. [1] and reflects Spanish influences. Traditionally, the guitar is played in ...

  7. Andy Palacio - Wikipedia

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    Palacio was born and raised in the coastal village of Barranco. [1] He worked briefly as a high school social studies teacher before turning to music. [2] Palacio received the award for "Best New Artist" at the Caribbean Music Awards in 1991, WOMEX Award in 2007 and was posthumously awarded the BBC3 Awards for World Music award in the Americas Category, in 2008.

  8. List of Caribbean aerophones - Wikipedia

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    Garifuna music: 4 Used in Garifuna Punta: saxophone [1] Dominican Republic, Cuba, 4 Used in merengue, where it is the main instrumentation for the jaleo. Used in popular Cuban bands. trumpet [2] [3] Cuba: 4 Used in comparsa pre-Easter celebrations trumpet [7] Trinidad and Tobago: 4 Later addition to the tamboo bamboo ensembles trumpet [8 ...

  9. Drums of Our Fathers Monument - Wikipedia

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    The bronze monument, Drums of Our Fathers, was erected to honour and commemorate the history, beliefs and culture of the Garifuna people throughout the country of Belize. . The musical instruments on the sculpture represents the past, present and future of the Garifuna culture and are generally used in the popular Garifuna music and celebratio