List of Central American folk music traditions

This is a list of folk music traditions, with styles, dances, instruments and other related topics. The term "folk music" can not be easily defined in a precise manner; it is used with widely-varying definitions depending on the author, intended audience and context within a work. Similarly, the term "traditions" in this context does not connote any strictly-defined criteria. Music scholars, journalists, audiences, record industry individuals, politicians, nationalists and demagogues may often have occasion to address which fields of folk music are distinct traditions based along racial, geographic, linguistic, religious, tribal or ethnic lines, and all such peoples will likely use different criteria to decide what constitutes a "folk music tradition". This list uses the same general categories used by mainstream, primarily English-language, scholarly sources, as determined by relevant statements of fact and the internal structure of works.

These traditions may coincide entirely, partially or not at all with geographic, political, linguistic or cultural boundaries. Very few, if any, music scholars would claim that there are any folk music traditions that can be considered specific to a distinct group of people and with characteristics undiluted by contact with the music of other peoples; thus, the folk music traditions described herein overlap in varying degrees with each other.

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Tradition = Belizean mestizo [Graham, Ronnie, "Drum'n'Flute Legacies", in the "Rough Guide to World Music", pgs. 325 - 331]
Styles = brukdown
Dance =
Instrumentation = accordion - banjo - dingaling - guitar - marimba
Peoples =
Geography =
Other =

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Tradition = Garifuna [Graham, Ronnie, "Drum'n'Flute Legacies", in the "Rough Guide to World Music", pgs. 325 - 331]
Styles = paranda - punta
Dance =
Instrumentation = guitar - scraper - shaker
Peoples =
Geography =
Other =

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Tradition = Guatemalan [Nettl, "Folk and Traditional Music", pg. 178]
Styles =
Dance =
Instrumentation = marimba
Peoples =
Geography =
Other =

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Tradition = Kuna [Schechter, John M., "Latin America/Ecuador" in "Worlds of Music", pgs. 376 - 427]
Styles =
Dance =
Instrumentation = gammu burui - guli
Other =

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Tradition = Panamanian [Gallop, Nigel and Robin Broadbank, "Dancing Between the Oceans", in the "Rough Guide to World Music", pgs. 477 - 480]
Styles = copla - décima - gallina - llanto - mejorana - mesano - punto - saloma - tono - toque - torrente - valdivieso
Dance = amanojá - bunde - congo - cumbia panameña - escobillado - llanero - mejorana - paseo - seguidilla - socavone - suelta - tamborito - zapateo - zapateado
Instrumentation = accordion - caja - churruca - flute - guitar - harmonica - maraca - mejorana - pujador - repicador - tambora - triangle - violin
Peoples =
Geography =
Other = cantalante - tuna

References

*cite book
author = Broughton, Simon and Mark Ellingham (eds.)
edition = First edition
id = ISBN 1-85828-636-0
location = London
publisher = Rough Guides
title = Rough Guide to World Music
year = 2000
*cite book
author = Lankford, Ronald D. Jr.
id = ISBN 0-8256-7300-3
location = New York
publsher = Schirmer Trade Books
title = The Changing Voice Music of Protest USA
year = 2005
*cite book
author = Philip V. Bohlman
coauthors = Bruno Nettl, Charles Capwell, Thomas Turino and Isabel K. F. Wong
edition = Second edition
id = ISBN 0-13-230632-8
publisher = Prentice Hall
title = Excursions in World Music
year = 1997
*cite book
author = Nettl, Bruno
location = Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey
publisher = Prentice Hall
title = Folk and Traditional Music of the Western Continents
year = 1965
*cite book
author = Fujie, Linda, James T. Koetting, David P. McAllester, David B. Reck, John M. Schechter, Mark Slobin and R. Anderson Sutton
edition = Second Edition
editor = Jeff Todd Titan (Ed.)
id = ISBN 0-02-872602-2
location = New York
publisher = Schirmer Books
title = Worlds of Music: An Introduction to the Music of the World's Peoples
year = 1992
*cite book
author = van der Merwe, Peter
id = ISBN 0-19-316121-4
location = Oxford
publisher = Clarendon Press
title = Origins of the Popular Style: The Antecedents of Twentieth-Century Popular Music
year = 1989
*cite web
accessdate= April 3
accessyear= 2006
title = International Dance Glossary
url = http://www.worldmusiccentral.org/staticpages/index.php/glossary
work = World Music Central

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