What are the Garifuna dances?
Dance. Traditional Garifuna dances to accompany the music are the HunguHungu, Chumba, Punta and Wanaragua. The HunguHungu is a ritual dance which is used as a way for the living to communicate with the dead. The Chumba dance has strong erotic undertones and was traditionally performed exclusively by women.
What are some popular dances in Belize?
Punta and Punta rock are the most popular forms of dance music in Garifuna culture. Punta is performed around holidays and at parties, and other social events. Punta lyrics are usually composed by the women. Chumba and hunguhungu are circular dances in a three beat rhythm, which are often combined with punta.
What is the name of the popular Garifuna music?
The two main Garifuna music genres are Paranda and Punta: Paranda is folk style usually consisting of acoustic guitar and drums and percussion, along with call-and-response singing. Punta is an up-tempo music and dance style.
What is Garifuna tradition?
Garifuna spiritualism is creatively expressed through music, dancing and other art forms. Food. Traditional Garifuna foods are based around fish, chicken, cassava, bananas, and plantains. Most of the meals are rich and hearty.
What are Garifuna instruments?
The main traditional instruments are drums and maracas. Drums play an important role in Garifuna music. The main drum is the Segunda (bass drum). The drums are normally made by hollowing out logs and stretching antelope skin over them.
What are Garifuna drums made of?
hardwood
The drum itself is unique in design made of hollowed out hardwood such as mahogany or mayflower. This percussion instrument has one drumhead of skin at the top made from peccary pig, deer or sheep.
Where did Garifuna drums originate?
Belize
The garifuna drum is a membranophone percussion from the Garifuna culture in Belize, Guatemala and Honduras.
What is the origin of the Garifuna?
Garifuna, also known as Garinagu, are the descendants of an Afro-indigenous population from the Caribbean island of St Vincent who were exiled to the Honduran coast in the eighteenth century and subsequently moved to Belize.
Where can you find Garifuna people?
Today, the Garifuna people live mainly in small towns on the Caribbean coasts from Belize to Guatemala, Honduras and Nicaragua. In Belize, the town of Dangriga in southern Belize is considered the spiritual capital of the Garifuna people, as it has the greatest concentration of them in Belize.