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Music Of Nicaragua
The Music of Nicaragua contains a mixture of White Nicaraguan, European, Indigenous Nicaraguans, Indigenous, and Afro-Nicaraguan, African influences. Occasionally, it also rarely features Asian music, Asian and Arab music, Arab musical influences as well as from other countries of Hispanic and Latino (demonym), Latino origin. Musical instruments include the marimba and others that are common across Central America. Pop music includes performers from all around the world including Nicaraguans, Cubans, Brazilians, Mexico, Mexicans, Panamanians, as well as those from Europe and the United States. Nicaraguans enjoy their local artist's music but also enjoy music from around the world. They enjoy the Dominican Republic's Bachata (music), bachata and Merengue music, merengue, Jamaica's reggae, Puerto Rico's Salsa music, salsa and reggaeton and Colombia's Cumbia among other genres including pop music, pop. Among the younger crowds, Heavy Metal music, heavy metal and Rock music, rock have ...
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Palo De Mayo
Palo de Mayo ( en, Maypole; or ¡M ayo Ya!) is a type of Afro-Caribbean dance with sensual movements that forms part of the culture of several communities in the RAAS region in Nicaragua, as well as Belize, the Bay Islands of Honduras and Bocas del Toro in Panama. It is also the name given to the month-long May Day festival celebrated on the Caribbean coast. Both the festival and dance are an Afro-Nicaraguan tradition which originated in Bluefields, Nicaragua in the 17th century. History Palo de Mayo, or Maypole, is a celebration welcoming rain, production, new life and including a maypole, which is a tall wooden pole, decorated with several long, colored ribbons suspended from the top. There is no definite answer as to how it got to Nicaragua. Historians continue to debate its origins. Bluefields people pretty much all agree, "May Pole is not what it used to be." An elegant polka in which smartly dressed women held hands and two-slapped around a fruit laden tree. It was probabl ...
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Calypso Music
Calypso is a style of Caribbean music that originated in Trinidad and Tobago during the early to the mid-19th century and spread to the rest of the Caribbean Antilles and Venezuela by the mid-20th century. Its rhythms can be traced back to West African Kaiso and the arrival of French planters and their slaves from the French Antilles in the 18th century. It is characterized by highly rhythmic and harmonic vocals, and was historically most often sung in a French creole and led by a griot. As calypso developed, the role of the griot became known as a ''chantuelle'' and eventually, ''calypsonian''. As English replaced "patois" (Antillean creole) as the dominant language, calypso migrated into English, and in so doing it attracted more attention from the government. It allowed the masses to challenge the doings of the unelected Governor and Legislative Council, and the elected town councils of Port of Spain and San Fernando. Calypso continued to play an important role in politic ...
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White Nicaraguan
According to , Nicaragua has a population of . Whites and Mestizos and tribally unaffiliated Native Americans combined make up about 86% of the population. The remainder of the Nicaraguan population is 9% English-speaking Afro-Nicaraguans, and 5% Tribal Native American. Prior to the Sandinista revolution of 1979 since most of the migration during the years that followed were primarily of upper or middle-class Nicaraguans, a group primarily made up of whites. A growing number of these expats have returned, while many continue to live abroad. The 42.5% of the population live below to the poverty line, The general poverty rate is estimated of 47.3%, although much of the population lives in the lower middle class because of low salaries and a minimal amount of PIB (US$1000–3000). The most populous city in the country is the capital city, Managua, with a population of 1.2 million (2005). As of 2005, over 4.4 million inhabitants live in the Pacific, Central and North regions. 2.7 ...
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Nicaragua
Nicaragua (; ), officially the Republic of Nicaragua (), is the largest country in Central America, bordered by Honduras to the north, the Caribbean to the east, Costa Rica to the south, and the Pacific Ocean to the west. Managua is the country's capital and largest city. , it was estimated to be the second largest city in Central America. Nicaragua's multiethnic population of six million includes people of mestizo, indigenous, European and African heritage. The main language is Spanish. Indigenous tribes on the Mosquito Coast speak their own languages and English. Originally inhabited by various indigenous cultures since ancient times, the region was conquered by the Spanish Empire in the 16th century. Nicaragua gained independence from Spain in 1821. The Mosquito Coast followed a different historical path, being colonized by the English in the 17th century and later coming under British rule. It became an autonomous territory of Nicaragua in 1860 and its northernmost part ...
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Music Of Panama
Panama is a Central American country, inhabited mostly by mestizos (persons of mixed African, European and indigenous ancestry). The music of Panama is heavily based on the folk music of Spain, particularly that of Andalusia and was influenced first by the indigenous populations of Kunas, Teribes, Ngobe Bugle and others, and then by the black population who were brought over, first as slaves from Africa, between the 16th century and the 19th century, and then voluntarily (especially from Jamaica, Trinidad and Tobago, Barbados, Martinique, Guadeloupe, Dominica, Saint Lucia) to work on the Panamanian Railroad and Canal projects between the 1840s and 1914. With this heritage, Panama has a rich and diverse music history, and important contributions to cumbia, saloma, pasillo, punto, tamborito, mejorana, bolero, jazz, salsa, reggae, calypso, rock and other musical genres. Saloma and mejorana The saloma and mejorana feature a distinctive vocal style said to derive from Sevillian ...
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Music Of Honduras
Music of Honduras is very varied. Punta is the main "ritmo" of Honduras with other music such as Paranda, Bachata, Caribbean salsa, cumbia, reggae, merengue, soca, calypso, dancehall and reggaeton widely heard especially in the North, to Mexican rancheras heard in the interior rural part of the country. Overview Honduras' capital Tegucigalpa is an important center for modern Honduran music, and is home to the College for Fine Arts. Folk music is played with guitar, marimba and other instruments. Punta is popular in Honduras. Popular folk songs include ''La ceiba'' and ''Candú''. There is an Orquesta Sinfónica Nacional de Honduras (a national orchestra) in Comayagua. Notable musicians * Banda Blanca * Javier Monthiel * Anima * Polache * Guillermo Anderson * Moisés Canelo * URANIA * Khaos * El Pez * Montuca SoundSystem * Evolucion Neutra * Delirium * Sueño Digviana * Pez Luna * Sol Caracol * Maria Isolina * Dano Cube * Atomic Rose * Tux Lunan * Chia Casanova ...
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Music Of Guatemala
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 celebrations at Santiago de los Caballeros de Guatemala. Guatemala also has an almost five-century-old tradition of art music, spanning from the first liturgical chant and polyphony introduced in 1524 to contemporary art music. Much of the music composed in Guatemala from the 16th century to the 19th century has only recently been unearthed by scholars and is being revived by performers. Mayan Music Much of what is known about how the ancient Mayans created and played music comes from the iconography that is preserved in the ceremonial pieces of mural art, or codices. One example is found in the ancient Maya archaeological site of Bonam ...
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Music Of El Salvador
The music of El Salvador refers to Music of the Republic of El Salvador and is encompassed in the wider Latin American musical traditions. During the colonial period, El Salvador's music began to be influenced by various ethnic groups involved in the colonization process. *Music instruments that are present in El Salvador are Native American Pan-Indianism instruments such as Native American flute and drums. El Salvador has an American indigenous population which includes the Lenca, Pipil and Mayan people *European colonizers brought instruments, like the Guitar, pedal steel guitar, Fanfare trumpet and piano. *When African slaves were brought to El Salvador, they introduced instruments like xylophone, Güira and Mbira, *A sizeable Arab migration that arrived into El Salvador in late 19th and early 20th century, from mainly Lebanese people and Palestinian Salvadorans brought Arab instruments like Oud, Ney, Goblet drum and Qanun (instrument). *Roman Catholic Religi ...
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Music Of Costa Rica
The country of Costa Rica has many kinds of music. Though its music has achieved little international credit, Costa Rican popular music genres include an indigenous calypso scene, which is distinct from the more widely known Trinidadian calypso sound, as well as a thriving disco audience that supports nightclubs in cities such as San José. American and British rock and roll and pop are very popular and common among the youth (especially urban youth), while dance-oriented genres including soca, salsa, merengue, cumbia and Tex-Mex have an appeal among a somewhat older audience. Mexican music is very popular among older people and some people in the countryside. During the middle years of the 20th century, Costa Rica was exposed to much Mexican cultural influence. Another new genre explored in Costa Rica is Celtic with the group Peregrino Gris. Folk Music The Caribbean coast shows a strong African influence in the complex percussion rhythms such as sinkit. Like its nor ...
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Music Of Belize
The music of Belize has a mix of Creole, Mestizo, Garìfuna, Mayan and European influences. European and African influences After many centuries of Maya habitation, British colonizers arrived in the area in the 17th century. Belize was Britain's only colony in Spanish-dominated Central America until self-government in 1964 and gaining full Independence in 1981. Belize is still part of the Commonwealth of Nations. Far more influential than this presence, however, was the importation of African slaves. Europeans brought polkas, waltzes, schottisches and quadrilles, while Africans brought numerous instruments and percussion-based musics, including marimba. African culture resulted in the creation of brukdown music in interior logging camps, played using banjo, guitar, drums, dingaling bell, accordion and an ass' jaw bone played by running a stick up and down the teeth. Mestizo and Maya music The Maya presence in Belize traces back to 2600 B.C. Almost forty sites of ancient M ...
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Samples Of Nicaraguan Music
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Timeline Of Trends In Nicaraguan Music
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