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Article: WEST AFRICAN AND HAITIAN INFLUENCES ON THE RITUAL AND POPULAR MUSIC OF CARRIACOU, TRINIDAD, AND CUBA.
- Article from:
- Black Music Research Journal
- Article date:
- March 22, 1998
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Afro-Caribbean ritual music may be divided into two broad categories. One includes the music for Caribbean religions that seem to draw traditions from one particular ethnic group in Africa or another. These religions tend to have separate rites and devotees. For example, the orisha of Trinidad and the Lucumi of Cuba are largely Yoruban. In Haiti, there once were seventeen nanchons (nations); each nanchon (except for Petro, which was born in Hispanola) is thought to be derived from a separate ethnic group in Africa--Rada, Kongo, Nago, Ibo, and so on--although many putative nations draw their traditions from more than one African group. The second category includes ...
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