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Areito   an Arawak socioreligious ritual with music and dance  
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Cabildo   Town Council; in Cuba, an Afro-Cuban mutual-aid society  
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Santeria   a Yoruba-derived Afro-cuban religion  
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Palo   “stick”; a Congolese-derived Afro-cuban religion  
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Abakua   a secretive urban Afro-Cuban brotherhood, derived from the Efik people of Calabar  
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Arara   a Dahomeyan-derived Afro-Cuban sect  
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Polyrhythm   A composite rhythmic structure combining two or more regular meters  
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Decima   A Spanish-derived text form of ten-line stanzas, usually with the espinela rhyme scheme abbaaccddc  
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Marimbula   In Cuba, a bass instrument consisting of plucked metal keys mounted on a wooden box  
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Tres   “three”; a Cuban guitar-like instrument with three doubled courses, tuned D-G-B  
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Son   the most popular Cuban music and dance genre of the twentieth century  
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Bembe   cuba: a type of Santeria party, using eponymus drums and rhythms wherein possession may occur despite the prevailing festive air; the staved barrel drums used in the bembe partyNYC: term used loosely to describe any Santeria ceremony with music&dance  
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Bata   a double-headed, hourglass  
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Conga   a single-headed drum used un Cuban dance music; a song and dance genre, characteristically used in comparsa processions  
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Danzon   a Cuban salon music genre popular from the late nineteenth to early twentieth centuries  
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Tumba   tumba francesa ???  
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Quinto   ‘fifth’; the higher-pitched conga in Cuban rumba  
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Bongo   a pair of small, joined hand drums; an archaic Afro-Trinidadian social dance genre, traditionally performed at wakes  
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Cata   a log played with sticks, especially in Santeria and tumba Francesca music  
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Cajon   “box”; the wooden boxes sometimes used as drums in Cuban rumba columbia  
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Clave   “key”; one of a pair of hard wooden sticks, struck together; the characteristic ostinato played on clave sticks; a nineteenth- and early twentieth-century urban genre of Cuba, in 6/8 meter, sung by strolling choruses  
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Palitos   “little sticks”, such as are used to play rhythmic ostinatos on the side of a drum or a log in traditional rumba and other Afro-Cuban genres  
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Timbales   in latin music, a pair of drums, usually mounted on a stand, with a cowbell  
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Tumba Francesa   a Franco-Haitian-derived mutual-aid and social-recreation society of Eastern Cuba  
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Montuno   the final and, usually, longest part of a rumba, son, or other Afro-Cuban-derived dance-music piece, employing call-and-response vocals over a rhythmic and harmonic ostinato  
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Guajeo   in Cuban dance music, a melodic Ostinato  
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Rumba – an Afro   an Afro-Cuban secular dance and music genre  
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Bolero   a sentimental, danceable song in slow quadratic meter, popular throughout the Spanish Caribbean, with a characteristic bass pattern (when bass is present) of a half note followed by two quarter notes  
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cha, cha, cha   A Cuban popular dance and music genre in medium tempo, which originated in the early 1950s  
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guaracha   an up-tempo dance genre of Cuba and, subsequently, Puerto Rico, originally with a light, often satirical or bawdy text and verse-chorus form  
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guajira   a female peasant of Cuba; a kind of folk and popular music associated with Cuban peasants  
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orquesta tipica   in the latter half of the nineteenth century, a horn-dominated ensemble primarily playing danzon and contradanza, consisting of cornet, trombone, figle, bombardino, two clarinets, two or more violins, contrabass, timbales, and guiro  
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charanga   a Cuban dance ensemble consisting of flute, two violins, piano, bass, and percussion  
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conjunto   in Afro-Latin music, a standard dance ensemble consisting of a rhythm section, two to four horns, and vocals  
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Taino,Carib, Ciboney   Indigenous people of the Antilles, (complete annihilation occurred within 100 years after Columbus’ Cuban landfall in 1492)  
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Changui   form of Cuban music preceding son.Uses tres,marimbula,bongo,guayo&maracas. 3 forms of Changui.Most basic is Changui Tradicional: 5 distinct sections(call, collective execution, Changui canto, Inspiration,Farewell environment) no instrumental chords played  
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guiro   a gourd scraper  
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guayo   a metal scraper used in Changui  
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guaya   a metal scraper used in merengue of Dominican Republic  
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collective participation   indicates most members of a community being involved, one way or another, in music making  
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call and response   antiphony  
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cellular structure   Music that is “open ended”- based on repeating musical patterns; pattterns are repeated and “embellished” as performers choose - as opposed to a conventional “song” that is always performed in the same fixed way with unwavering lyrics, melody, etc.  
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rumba (guaguanco, columbia, yambu)   idk...listen to music?  
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vacunao   : In some forms of rumba (guaguanco) a movement that pantomimes the male’s seduction of his female partner. It originates from a Congolese fertility dance known as yuka.  
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