Chumbais a traditional form of music and dance performed by the

Garifuna The Garifuna people ( or ; pl. Garínagu in Garifuna) 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. The Garifuna ...

people in several Central American countries. Like

punta Punta is an Afro-Indigenous dance and cultural music deeply rooted in the cultural traditions of the Garifuna of Honduras. It heavily incorporates West African/Central African drumming, the dance primarily of Angola and Congo origins. The musi ...

(another type of Garifuna music), chumba songs are highly

polyrhythmic Polyrhythm () is the simultaneous use of two or more rhythms that are not readily perceived as deriving from one another, or as simple manifestations of the same meter. The rhythmic layers may be the basis of an entire piece of music (cross-rh ...

, but have a slower tempo. The chumba dance is a solo dance performed by a woman, often exhibiting a large degree of individual style.

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External links

How to Play Chumba - with Warasa Garifuna Drum School
on YouTube Garifuna music South American dances {{Music-genre-stub