Bethel_MUSI322

      https://thumbs.dreamstime.com/z/traditional-open-air-sea-salt-production-coast-la-palma-canary-            islands-spain-traditional-open-air-sea-salt-production-213196906.jpg The island nations of Cuba, the Dominican Republic, and Puerto Rico, as well as the coasts of Venezuela, northern Colombia, and eastern Panama, are included in the Caribbean dialect zone.  The Spanish colonial venture in the Americas began in the Caribbean; in fact, Columbus's celebrated finding of America in 1492 involved the discovery of Hispaniola, the island that is now divided into the Dominican Republic and Haiti. The period 1492–1919, which includes the latter date, which marks the start of the conquest of Mexico, is referred to as the perodo antillano. This is because Spanish settlement in the Americas was limited to Caribbean islands for about three decades after Colombus' initial expedition. Salt For a large portion of the colonial period, certain l...

String bands Across the 19th century, string bands started to appear in the Caribbean, with regional variations. The groups who played European dance music at upper-class house parties and balls gave rise to string bands. The early years frequently featured the participation of enslaved domestic workers, whose participation helped blend Caribbean rhythms and playing techniques with European songs and instruments. The mixture of instruments and repertoire of a string band is adapted to the one-of-a-kind issue on its native island. For instance, the quelbe of the United States Virgin Islands called “fungi” on the British Virgin Islands is the local incarnation of a string band on those islands  (Gangelhoff, 2019, pg. 182) . String bands play musical support to a range of social and festive occasions on several islands. For the Christmas season, string bands appear on some. A violin, guitar, banjo, or some mixture of those appliances, along with a number of percussion instruments, are...