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Main article: Garifuna music The Garifuna are a distinct people of Central America of Afro-Amerindian descent. Their music is rhythmic and communal, with a call and response structure and spiritual or ritual purposes. Garifuna music is fundamentally African in nature, and is based around drums and other percussion instruments. The two major secular genres of Garifuna popular music are punta and paranda. ...

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Main article: Marimba The marimba's first ironclad evidence of existence comes from 1806, when Juan Domingo Juarros, a Spanish historian, described it in the Compendium of the History of Guatemala. The instrument is, however, likely much older, and is likely an attempt at recreating an older West African instrument; they may be a mention of it in a description of an Antigua parade in 1680, and could have been introduced as early as 1550 [1]. An ancient Mayan manuscript depicts a marimba musician, and the instrument has v ...

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Main article: Garifuna music The Garifunas are descended from slaves enslaved from Nigeria and who later escaped from St. Vincent. Eventually migrating to Belize in 1802, the Garifunas kept themselves apart from the social system then dominant, leading to a distinctive culture that developed throughout the 20th century. Punta is by the far most popular genre of Garifuna music and has become the most popular genre in all of Belize. It is distinctly Afro-Caribbean, and is sometimes said to be ready for international popularization like similarly-descen ...

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Total (2003 E) Density 279,457 (July 2005 est.) 13/km² Belize is a small nation on the eastern coast of Central America, on the Caribbean Sea bordered by Mexico to the northwest and Guatemala to the west and south. The country is a parliamentary democracy and constitutional monarchy which recognizes Queen Elizabeth II as Sovereign. The nation of Honduras is a near neighbour, 75 km away (47 miles) across the Gulf of Honduras to the east. The name is derived from the Belize River which Belize Cit ... Including:

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An Afro-Latin American is a person from Latin America who has black ancestry. Concepts of "Black", negro or "African" are vastly different in Latin America than how they are applied within the English-speaking nations of America, since the one-drop theory was never used. Latinos believe the term "Afro-Latino" is not necessary as the term "Latino" itself ecompasses and includes a melée of various ethnic heritages that includes Indigenous, African and European bloodlines. Many in Latin America feel that certain allegedly politically-co ... Including:

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Main article: Garifuna music The Garifuna are descended from escaped Nigerian slaves and Island Caribs who were deported from St. Vincent to Central America (especially Honduras and also Belize) in 1802) by the British when they conquered St. Vincent. The Garifunas kept themselves apart from the social system then dominant, leading to a distinctive culture that developed throughout the 20th century. Forms of Garifuna folk music and dance include chumba and hunguhungu, a circular dance in a three beat rhythm, which is oft ...

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Main article: Brukdown Brukdown is a very popular modern style of Belizean music. It evolved out of the music and dance of loggers, especially a form called buru. Buru was often satirical in nature, and eventually grew more urban, accompanied by a donkey's jawbone, drums and a banjo. The word brukdown may come from broken down calypso, referring to the similarities between brukdown and Trinidadian calypso music; the presence of large numbers of Jamaicans in Beliz ...

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