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Topic: Hunguhungu


In the News (Fri 1 Jan 10)

  
  FRONTLINE/WORLD . BELIZE - The Exile's Song . Links | PBS
Punta Rock is one of Belize's most famous musical and dance forms today, combining traditional instruments and ancestral Garifuna rhythms with modern instruments, like the electric guitar.
Other forms of Garifuna music and dance include hunguhungu and chumba.
Hunguhungu, a circular dance in a three-beat rhythm, is often combined with Punta.
www.pbs.org /frontlineworld/stories/belize/links.html   (1030 words)

  
 Dancing with drums is an integral part of Garinagu in Seine Bight. It plays a role in rite and ritual and serves ...
Drums play a simple three-beat rhythm and everyone sings in unison.
COMBINATION- An exiting alternation of punta and hunguhungu rhythms.
Also known as John Canoe, this is a victory dance.
www.seinebight.com /drumsdance.htm   (677 words)

  
 The America's Influence On Belize's Pop Music   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
The words are sung in Garifuna or in Creole.
The other traditional rhythms are Wanarugu, the John Canoe, Cow Dance, played especially at time of Christmas or the ritual dances like Hunguhungu and Mali.
In the African beginnings and amérindians, one finds rhythms come from Barbados, Haiti, Jamaica or Trinidad.
bleaseswebworld.com /bzemusic.html   (2778 words)

  
 Honduras This Week Cultural   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
On Good Friday, a big day at the beach, the Garifunas of Corrozal carry out with reverence dramas such as the Passion and Resurrection of Jesus Christ and there is a procession of Christ's image through the town.
Fedu or hunguhungu is a dance performed by adult Garifuna women organized into dance clubs.
During Holy Week, the women sing and dance fedu, which is dedicated to sadness or lament at this time.
www.marrder.com /htw/apr98/cultural.htm   (7319 words)

  
 Music cd reviews of Paranda: Africa in Central America - Various Artists   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
Every song on this CD commands the feet to move.
Unlike the obvious lustiness of the voluptuous punta and the traditional dignity of the hunguhungu, there is a subtle sexiness to paranda.
The songs in Paranda: Africa in Central America have this quality, and it becomes difficult to restrain oneself from dancing as one listens to the songs.
www.cd-reviewers.com /reviews_466616_B00000K3HF   (450 words)

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