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	Garifuna music - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Garifuna music is similarly different from the rest of Central America; the most famous form is punta.
		Other forms of Garifuna music and dance include chumba and hunguhungu, a circular dance in a three beat rhythm, which is often combined with punta.
		In 2001, Garifuna music was proclaimed one of the masterpieces of the oral and intangible heritage of humanity by UNESCO.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Garifuna_music (308 words)

	Punta rock - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		He added the rhythm of the electric guitar to the traditional punta rhythm and created what is now known as punta-rock, the "rock" being the rhythm of the guitar.
		The Garifuna culture was being weakened at the time as young progressive Garifuna men and women looked more to an American style of existence and did not carry on the traditions as before.
		As the pride of the Garifuna was given a booster shot by punta rock, more artists began composing Garifuna songs to traditional Garifuna rhythms.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Punta_rock (337 words)

	Garifuna
		The Garifuna culture displays many influences of its African heritage, and this is extremely evident when comparing their music with the indigenous music of the African societies from which their ancestors originated.
		Garifuna music relies heavily on the drum, and in many instances their music is dictated by it.
		The Garifuna perform these rites because like many African societies they believe that spirits of their ancestors, which are both good and evil have direct impact on the lives of people in the living world.
	www.clas.ufl.edu /users/afburns/afrotrop/Garifuna.htm (1661 words)

	Garifuna music (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		The Garifunas kept themselves apart from the social systemthen dominant, leading to a distinctive culture that developed throughout the 20th century.
		Garifuna music is similarly different from the rest of Central America ; the most famous form is punta.
		Other forms of Garifuna music and dance include chumba and hunguhungu, a circular dance in a three beatrhythm, which is often combined with punta.
	www.therfcc.org /garifuna-music-277728.html (256 words)

	Encyclopedia: Garifuna music (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		The Garifuna or GarÃfuna are an ethnic group in the Caribbean area, descended from a mix of Amerindian and African people.
		Chumba is music which is clearly based or inspired by the early works of the band Chumbawumba.
		The Charikawi is a traditional mimed dance of the Garifuna, in which a hunter encounters a cave man and a cow.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Garifuna-music (803 words)

	In Garifuna Land
		The Garifuna have a hybrid culture that is intimately linked to the history of the Caribbean Basin, and are one of the reasons that Belize has more of a Caribbean than a Latin atmosphere.
		Garifuna culture is matriarchal; a mother is the center of her family, which in turn is the basic unit of society.
		Garifuna believe the dead can directly influence the living, and the women are periodically 'possessed' by relatives eager to talk.
	www.mayadiscovery.com /ing/life/garifuna.htm (839 words)

	World Beat: Music From Somewhere Else (6 February 2002) - PopMatters Music Column
		For instance, Jesuit missionary reports on Maya and Garifuna music were typically hostile to the perceived expression of "pagan" beliefs in expressive performance, a culturally loaded way of saying that native peoples combined their own spiritual traditions with those of the conquerors.
		Garifuna music, dance and ritual are little known outside the culture, but important documentary work has been done, and some critical archival recordings exist.
		Garifuna music builds on an ensemble of three garaon drums: the improvising primera or heart drum, the counter-rhythmic segunda or shadow drum, and the steady bass-line tercera.
	www.popmatters.com /music/columns/stone/020206.html (1592 words)

	World Music Central - African Beat, Amerind Soul, Indomitable Spirit
		The Garifuna are a minority population in Belize and other key areas of Central America, but their resiliency, resourcefulness and celebrated history have spurred much interest in recent years.
		Today's Garifuna are descended from Africans who survived the sinking of two slave ships off St. Vincent Island a few centuries ago as well as escaped slaves and, as emerging archeological and historical evidence has suggested, even pre-Colombian Africans who had long lived in the Caribbean.
		Garifuna music often commemorates key events in their history as well as bringing about spiritual healing and referencing specific religious syncreticism.
	www.worldmusiccentral.org /article.php/20050218023051662 (489 words)

	Bangkok Post Friday 19 August 2005 - True to his roots (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		The music of Africa is at the root of much of the music of South America and the Caribbean basin region.
		His music is a result of the blending of Amerindian and African music, a music buzzing with complex percussion and passionate singing.
		Despite being a pioneer of Cuban music in the 1950s, bolero and son singer Ibrahim Ferrer was scraping by on a meagre state pension by the 1990s, with some shoe shining thrown in when he needed the cash.
	www.bangkokpost.com /en/190805_Realtime/19Aug2005_real64.php (955 words)

	Garifuna
		Garifuna, Dügü: The dügü ritual, also called “feasting the dead.” This site describes the reasons and preparations for this fervent ceremony and explains each aspect—“The culture of the Garifuna is a system of traditional and typical West African cultural expression fused with Amerindian customs and subsistence bases.
		Garifuna of Honduras—“The Garifuna peoples of Belize, Guatemala, Honduras and to a lesser extent the Caribbean Coastline of Nicaragua, Columbia and Venezuela, are descended from West African, Arawakan and Carib Indians.
		Garifuna Mali: “Caribs, Garifuna and Garinagu of Seine Bight, Hopkins, George Town, Dangriga, Barranco, Belize, Honduras and Garinagu everywhere.
	www.kacike.org /cac-ike/Belize.html (2525 words)

	Authentic Garifuna Music (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Garifuna culture is especially confusing because of its historical identity as a cultural mixture of African and Amerindian influences as well as the additional "mixing" that has been occurring
		Until recently most of the Garifuna people in Belize lived in small villages, where everybody knew their neighbors, and their community was composed of people that they knew personally.
		The dügü is a Garifuna healing ceremony in which an entire extended family comes together to heal social rifts and the physical ailments they cause.
	www.belizeanjourneys.com /features/garifmusic/newsletter.html (1098 words)

	Belize - Belizeans.com - Garifuna Page
		Garifuna Settlement Day Festival: Celebrations in the southern most areas of the country to mark the first arrival of the Garifuna in 1832 in Dangriga.
		The Garifuna adopted the Carib language but kept their African musical and religious traditions, against the demands of the island's colonial masters.
		In 1795 the Garifuna people rebelled against the British; the Crown punished them for their insolence by deporting them to the island of Roatán, off Honduras.
	www.belizeans.com /garifuna.htm (521 words)

	Carib Culture of the GARINAGU, garifuna, Seine Bight Garifuna, Placencia Peninsula, Belize, Seine Bight Garinagu, Seine ...
		Garifuna dominate the southern towns of Punta Gorda and Dangriga as well as the villages of Seine Bight, Hopkins, Georgetown and Barranco.
		Garifuna are mostly employed as teachers or civil servants and are known as remarkable linguists and students.
		The Garifuna had resisted British and French colonialism in the Lesser Antilles until they were defeated by the British in 1796.
	www.seinebight.com /garhistory.htm (3261 words)

	Artist Page
		The Lebeha Boys are barely-teen drummers from a tiny Garifuna fishing village on the Caribbean shores of Belize, Central America.
		Garifuna villages along the Caribbean coast of Central America have a predominance of school-age youth and their grandparents, while their parents (adults in their twenties, thirties and forties) are working abroad.
		Given the extent of Garifuna emigration to North America, it is encouraging that young people continue to learn the traditional drumming and singing styles practiced by their elders.
	innova.mu /artist1.asp?skuID=234 (624 words)

	Definitions of Style - Punta
		Punta, a reenactment of the cock-and-hen mating dance, is characterized by a motionless upper torso and rapid movement of the buttocks and hips caused by continuously shuffling the feet.
		Musically, the genre shows the influence of soca, salsa, reggae, rap, hip-hip, and other forms of Caribbean and urban-American popular music.
		The Garifuna and Creole culture of Belize explosion of punta rock.
	www.cbmr.org /styles/punta.htm (604 words)

	Amazon.com: Paranda: Africa in Central America: Music (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		I'm a very big fan of Garifuna music especially paranda, this album is a must have.
		The melding of so many paranda artists from Garifuna enclaves in Central America speaks of the close ties amongst Garinagu regardless of where thy are, and at the same time showcases the range and variety of paranda music even as it spans generations.
		Musically there is a sameness about a lot of these tracks, which can get a bit tedious at times, if you're not in the mood.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/B00000K3HF?v=glance (1165 words)

	Making It Cool To Be Garifuna - Caribbean Travel & Life
		That's the kind of music made by Andy Palacio, who set out to save the culture of his people, the Garifuna, and is now the most popular performer in his native Belize.
		The Garifuna originated during the 18th century when African slaves mixed with Caribs, the warlike tribe from South America that conquered the region that bears its name.
		The result was "punta rock" - Garifuna rhythms and lyrics morphed into a danceable genre that soon became the country's most popular music.
	www.caribbeantravelmag.com /article.jsp?ID=20619 (647 words)

	Aurelio Martinez Does Paranda
		He is a Garifuna born in Honduras but he says Belize is like home to him because Benque Viejo's Stonetree Records has given him the opportunity to pursue a career as a Parandero.
		And that feel of familiarity in the music, that Garifuna soul, comes most directly from the sinuous rhythms of Paranda music the intensely personal cousin to the upbeat Punta music.
		No Garifuna Grammy's but this weekend you'll get the closest thing as Aurelio and the Garifuna All Star band team up for a concert at the Bliss Center for the Performing Arts, where he'll be singing alongside the legend Paul Nabor and pull out his classic moves.
	www.7newsbelize.com /archive/05270409.html (778 words)

	FRONTLINE/WORLD . BELIZE - The Exile's Song . The Story \| PBS
		The Garifuna lived as free people on the island of St. Vincent until they were exiled by the British, then found refuge in Belize and Honduras.
		If there's an audience for new Garifuna music in Belize, it's for the more up-tempo Punta Rock, growing in popularity and often heard in the country's dance clubs.
		The voices of the young musicians are carrying the Garifuna story and music into the future.
	www.pbs.org /frontlineworld/stories/belize/thestory.html (727 words)

	Garifuna Music: Michael Stone
		Garifuna singing and drumming show keen affinities with other musics of the African diaspora, a fiercely percussive, communal call-and response formulation rooted in the sacred context of ancestral invocations and spirit possession, as in Cuban Santería, Haitian Vodoun and Brazilian Candomblé.
		Garifuna music builds on an ensemble of two and preferably, three garaon drums: the improvising primera or heart drum, the counter-rhythmic segunda or shadow drum, and the steady bass-line tercera.
		Garifuna fight to maintain and convey to their children a distinctive cultural and linguistic identity in a society that persists in applying an antagonistic, polarizing racial logic, the one-drop rule, to the lived diversity of the New World African diaspora.
	www.rootsworld.com /reviews/garifuna.html (1910 words)

	Best Kept Secrets: 2002 / RootsWorld Recording Review
		Garifuna emigration to the United States has seen the emergence of a younger transnational cadre influenced equally by its Central American roots and its insertion into the troubled racial formation of urban North American.
		Music of Guatemala, a two-volume Folkways release of Maya and Ladino music, presents several more chirimía tracks, and is the original source of the chirimía tune heard on the preceding anthology.
		Their music fitted in admirably with the spirit of the tranquil moonlight night among the San Antonio hills." A romantically tinged expression of admiration for Maya musicianship, to be sure, but this and prior 19th-century descriptions suggest the persistence of a certain aesthetically conservative core in traditional Maya music and dance.
	www.rootsworld.com /reviews/stone-centam.shtml (3633 words)

	Garifuna music - Definition up Erdmond.Com
		The Garifuna are descended from Nigerian slaves who escaped from St._Vincent and migrated to Central America (especially Honduras and also Belize) in 1802.
		Garifuna music is similarly different from the rest of Central_America; the most famous form is punta.
		Punta was popular across the region, especially in Belize, by the mid-1980s, culminating in the release of ''Punta_Rockers'' in 1987, a compilation featuring many of the genre's biggest stars.
	www.erdmond.com /Garifuna_music.html (289 words)

	SMS Online - The Rainforest World Music Festival 2002 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		The Rainforest World Music Festival is a unique festival that brings together on the same stage renowned world musicians from all continents and indigenous musicians from the interiors of the mythical island of Borneo.
		All in all, their aim is to kick up a mighty musical ruckus with their percussive guitars, throbbing electric bass, strident violins, swirling pipes and pounding drums.
		Garifuna songs and dance are an integral part of their culture.
	www.geocities.com /Broadway/Balcony/1338/concerts/rain2002a.htm (2221 words)

	Garifuna music - Encyclopedia, History, Geography and Biography
		Garifuna music - Encyclopedia, History, Geography and Biography
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		This encyclopedia, history, geography and biography article about Garifuna music contains research on
	www.arikah.com /encyclopedia/Garifuna_music (328 words)

	The Garífuna @ nationalgeographic.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		The Garífuna were selected because of the vibrancy of their language, music, and dance.
		But the survival of this culture is at risk due to discriminatory land measures, the failure of local school systems to acknowledge the language and culture, and lack of government and financial support.
		Gonzalez, Nancie L. Sojourners of the Caribbean: Ethnogenesis and Ethnohistory of the Garifuna.
	nationalgeographic.com /ngm/data/2001/09/01/html/ft_20010901.6.html (1042 words)

	Press Release
		The Goal of this Annual Concert is to increase the understanding and appreciation of Garifuna ancestry by inter-ethnic gatherings, locally and internationally celebrating the arrival and settlements of Garifuna people in Central America and the Caribbean.
		Punta Rock music is part of the heritage of the Garifuna Culture that incorporates key instruments such as the Garifuna drums, turtle shells and the "shaka" (or rattle) mixed with the electric guitar and keyboards, creating an explosive and rocking rhythm irresistible to all who hear it.
		Born and raised in the coastal village of Barranco, Andy grew up listening to traditional Garifuna music as well as imported sounds coming over the radio from neighboring Honduras, Guatemala, the Caribbean and the United States.
	www.belizeanartist.com /pressrelease.htm (1352 words)

	Stonetree Records: World Music from Belize, Central America, Garifuna, Creole, Maya, and Mestizo, small independent ...
		We also support the ongoing development of new and unique musical styles, and foster experimentation and creativity.Over the years we have also been very active in having our music recognized on the world music scene.
		Some projects in the pipeline for 2005 are the further development of Garifuna music with the production of two exciting new records, the Garifuna All Star Band and the Garifuna Women's Voices project, which features Garifuna women from Belize, Honduras, Guatemala and Nicaragua.
		We continue to contribute to the revival of Belizean Creole music through The Creole Experience recording project and are also working on a musical archive project to help preserve Belize's musical heritage.Everything we do is a labor of love for the music of this region, and we hope it shows.
	www.stonetreerecords.com (454 words)

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