Garifuna music is similarly different from the rest of Central America; the most famous form is punta. An evolved form of traditional music, still usually played using traditional instruments, punta has seen some modernization and electrification in the 1970s; this is called punta rock. Traditional punta dancing is consciously sexy and competitive. Artists like Pen Cayetano helped innovate modern punta rock by adding guitars to the traditional music, and paved the way for later artists like Andy Palacio, Children of the Most High and Black Coral. Punta was popular across the region, especially in Belize, by the mid-1980s, culminating in the release of Punta Rockers in 1987, a compilation featuring many of the genre's biggest stars. Garífuna is a spanish term for the people and language of the Garínagu. ... Map of Central America Central America is the central geographic region of the Americas. ... Punta is a type of music found primarily in Honduras, El Salvador, and Belize. ... The 1970s decade refers to the years from 1970 to 1979, inclusive. ... Punta rock is a form of the traditional punta rhythm of the Garifuna people of Central America. ... It has been suggested that this article or section be merged with Parts of the guitar. ... Andy Palicio is a Belizian Punta musician. ... Genera Antipathes Aphanipathes Bathypathes Cirripathes Leiopathes Parantipathes Stichopathes Taxipathes Black coral is a term given to a group of deep water, tree-like tropical coral related to sea anemone. ... The 1980s refers to the years of 1980 to 1989. ... 1987 (MCMLXXXVII) was a common year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar. ...

Other forms of Garifuna music and dance include chumba and hunguhungu, a circular dance in a three beat rhythm, which is often combined with punta. There are other songs typical to each gender, women having eremwu eu and abaimajani, rhythmic a cappella songs, and laremuna wadauman, men's work songs. Other forms of dance music include matamuerte, gunchei, charikawi and sambai. Chumba is music which is clearly based or inspired by the early works of the band Chumbawumba. ... Hunguhungu or fedu is a form of traditional swaying circular dance performed by the women of the Garifuna people of Belize, Honduras and Central America. ... Eremwu eu is a work song sung by women as they make cassava bread, as part of the Garifuna music tradition of Honduras. ... A cappella music is vocal music or singing without instrumental accompaniment, or a piece intended to be performed in this way. ... This article or section does not cite its references or sources. ... Dance music is a style of popular music commonly played in dance music nightclubs, radio stations and shows and raves. ... Matamuerte is a traditional Garinagu dance. ... Gunchei is a type of Garifuna dance in which the men take turns dancing with each woman. ... The Charikawi is a traditional mimed dance of the Garifuna, in which a hunter encounters a cave man and a cow. ...

Paranda music developed soon after the Garifunas arrival in Central America. The music is instrumental and percussion-based. The music was barely recorded until the 1990s, when Ivan Duran of Stonetree Records began the Paranda Project. Paranda is a city and a municipal council in Osmanabad district in the Indian state of Maharashtra. ... A percussion instrument can be any object which produces a sound by being struck with an implement, shaken, rubbed, scraped, or by any other action which sets the object into vibration. ... This article is 150 kilobytes or more in size. ...

In the Garifuna culture, there is another dance called Dugu. This dance is a ritual done for a death in the family to pay their respect to their loved ones.

In 2001, Garifuna music was proclaimed one of the masterpieces of the oral and intangible heritage of humanity by UNESCO. Map showing the Masterpieces of Oral and Intangible Heritage by country designation as of 2005: red (countries with 4 designations), orange (3), yellow (2) and green (1). ... UNESCO (United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization) is a specialized agency of the United Nations established in 1945. ...

References

• Music of the Garifuna (article in RootsWorld) [1]