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A maraca (pronunciation ⓘ), sometimes called shaker or chac-chac, [1] is a rattle which appears in many genres of Caribbean and Latin music.It is shaken by a handle and usually played as part of a pair.
Maracas–Saint Joseph is a colloquial name used in Trinidad and Tobago to distinguish the Maracas Valley above the town of Saint Joseph from Maracas Beach.Maracas–Saint Joseph is one of the large valleys on the southern side of the Northern Range, while Maracas Beach lies on the opposite side of the mountains.
One possible origin of the name Marrakesh is from the Berber (Amazigh) words amur (n) akush, which means "Land of God". [5] According to historian Susan Searight, however, the town's name was first documented in an 11th-century manuscript in the Qarawiyyin library in Fez, where its meaning was given as "country of the sons of Kush". [6]
Rattle from Papua New Guinea, made from leaves, seeds and coconut shell, to be tied around a dancer's ankle Maracas from Mexico Rattles from Pompeii. A rattle is a type of percussion instrument which produces a sound when shaken. Rattles are described in the Hornbostel–Sachs system as Shaken Idiophones or Rattles (112.1). [1] According to ...
Although the history of Cuban music dates back to the 16th century, the son is a relatively recent musical invention whose precursors emerged in the mid-to-late 19th century. Historically, most musicologists have supported the hypothesis that the direct ancestors (or earliest forms) of the son appeared in Cuba's Oriente Province , particularly ...
Afro-Caribbean music is a broad term for music styles originating in the Caribbean from the African diaspora. [1] These types of music usually have West African/Central African influence because of the presence and history of African people and their descendants living in the Caribbean, as a result of the trans-Atlantic slave trade. [2]
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Popular parang instruments include the Venezuelan cuatro (a small, four-string guitar) and maracas (locally known as chac-chacs). Other instruments often used are violin , guitar , claves (locally known as toc-toc ), box bass (an indigenous instrument), tambourine , mandolin , bandol , caja (a percussive box instrument), and marimbola (an Afro ...