Country |
Elements |
Dance |
Instrumentation |
Other topics |
Antiguan and Barbudan[1][2] |
benna - iron band |
Highland fling - quadrille |
banjar - bass drum - boompipe - kettle drum - toombah - triangle |
Old Time Christmas Festival |
Aruban |
See Dutch Antillean |
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Bahamian[3] |
ant'em - goombay - junkanoo - rake-and-scrape - rhyming spiritual - ring-play - shape-note |
quadrille - ring-dance - Heel-Toe-Polka |
goombay - guitar - maraca - saw - banjo - accordion - Harmonica - cowbells - Trumpet |
Obeah |
Barbadian[4] |
tuk band |
hornpipe - Jean and Johnnie - jig - march |
banjo - bones - bow-fiddle - calabash - cymbal - guitar - pump - rook jaw - shak-shak - shukster - snare drum - triangle - tum tum |
crop over - Landship - tea meeting |
Bermuda |
ballad |
Gombey |
bagpipe - fife - gombey - guitar - kettle drum - snare drum |
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Bonaire |
See Dutch Antillean |
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Carriacou |
See Grenada |
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Cayman Islander[5] |
Christmas carol - serenade |
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accordion - drum - fiddle - grater - mouth organ |
Batabano - Pirate's Week |
Cuban[6][7][8][9][10][11] |
afro - - bembé - bolero - bunga - canción - chambelona - changüí - cierre - cinquillo - cocoyé - criolla - décima - diana - fragaya - guaracha - guajira - habanera - kiribá - lloraos - martillo - montuno - nengones - pregón - punto guajiro - repique - rumba - salamaleco - son - sucu-sucu - tonada - toque - tumbao |
areito - bembé - chuchumbé - columbia - contradanza - danón - guaguancó - guaracha - makúa - makuta - maní - mañunga - masón - quadrille - rumba - sucu-sucu - tango congo - yambú - yuba - yuka - zapateo |
aberikula - agogós - bandora - bandurria - batá - biankomé - bocú - bongo - bongó del monte - bonkoenchemiyá - botija - bulá - cajón - catá - cencerro - chachá - chaworó - chekere - cheré - claves - conga - cornetas chinas - ekwé - efí - efó - enú - güiro - guagua - guataca - guayo - guitar - ilú - itótele - judíos batá - junga - kinfuiti - kuchí-yeremá - laúd - maraca - marimbula - maruga - ngoma - nkembi - obí-apá - ogán - okónkolo - pailas - palito - quinto - segon - segundo - sese eribó - tingo talango - tiple - tres - tumba - tumbadore |
abakuá - aché - arará - cabildo - Casa de la Trova - clave - comparsa - controversia - iremes - iyesá - ñáñigos - Palo - piquete - potencias - plantes - sandunga - Santería - toque - trovadore - tumba francesca |
Curaçao |
See Dutch Antillean |
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Dominica[12][13] |
bélé - caristo - chanté mas - jing ping - kont |
bidjin (biguine) - flirtation - lancer - mazourk (mazurka) - mereng (merengue) - polka pil (pure polka) - quadrille - sotis (schottische) - vals o vyenn (Viennese waltz) |
chakchak (maracas) - lapo kabwit (drums) - tanbou bélé - triangle (tingting) |
lavèyé |
Dominican Republic[6][7][11][14] |
bachata - gagá - jaleo - merengue - merengue típico cibaeño - perico ripiao |
merengue |
accordion - cuatro - güira - guayo - güiro - marimba - palo - tambora drum - vaksin |
misterios - velacione |
Dutch Antillean[15][16] |
belua - dan simadan - remailo - seú - tambú - tumba |
bari - tambú - wapa |
agan (iron or ploughshare) - bastèl (calabash) - chapi (hoe) - conga (drum) - guitar - kachu (cow's horn) - karko - quarta - tambú (drum) - triangle - wiri |
Simadan |
French Guianese[17] |
awassa - cassé-co - kawina - mato - songé - soussa |
bigi poku |
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Grenadan[18][19] |
cantique - chantey - lullaby - saraca |
big drum - heel-and-toe polka - picquet - quadrille - reel |
boula - cut drum |
Carriacou nations - saraca - Tombstone Feast |
Guadeloupe[6][7][11][20] |
gwo ka |
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boula - gwo ka - markeur (maké) |
lewoz - masquerade - mizik vidé |
Haitian[6][7][11][21][22] |
kongo - ibo - mereng - méringue - quintolet - ra-ra - ti - yanvalou |
carabinier - chica - gragement - juba - menwat - méringue |
big - boula - graj - guitar - kóné - lanbi - mamman - marimba - mosquito drum - ogan - segon - shekere - tambou - tcha-tcha - vaksin |
bann rara - Haitian Carnival - majó jonk - Rada - Petwo - twoubadou - Vodou |
Indo-Caribbean[7][23] |
bhajan - birha - chautal - dingolay - gali - matkor (matticore) - maulud - nirgun (funereal song) - qasida - sohar - tan - tassa |
matkor (matticore) |
dhantal - dholak - tabla - tassa |
Mariamman theater - Hossay - pandit - phagwa - picong |
Jamaican[6][7][11] |
baccra - burru - etu - gumbe - kumina - mento - nyabhingi - ring play - tambu |
mento |
banjo - bongo - fife - funde - guitar - kalimba |
jonkonnu - grounation - Pocomania - Revival Zion |
Kittitian and Nevisian[24][25] |
big drum - iron band |
big drum |
baha (blown metal pipe) - fife - guitar - quarto - shack-shack (tin can with beads inside) - triangle |
tea meeting |
Lucian[26][27] |
blòtjé - chanté abwè - chanté kont (jwé chanté) - chanté siay - gém - jwé - jwé dansé - Kélé drumming - kont - koutoumba - listwa - sankey - séwinal |
bélè - comette - débòt (circle dance) - dézyèm fidji - faci - grande ronde (gwan won) - jwé pòté (circle dance) - koutoumba - kwadril (quadrille) - lakonmèt (mazurka, mazouk) - latwiyèm fidji (avantwa, lanmen dwèt) - manpa (maynan) - moulala - omans (waltz) - polka - pwémyé fidji - schottische - solo (couple dance) - yonbòt (circle dance) |
baha (wooden trumpet) - banjo - bwa poye (skroud banjo) - chak-chak (rattle) - cuatro - fiddle - guitar - gwaj (scraper) - ka - mandolin - tambourine (tanbouwen) - tibwa - zo (bones) |
chantwèl - Kélé - La Marguerite - La Rose - lang dévivé - wibòt |
Martinican[6][7][11][20] |
biguine vidé - chouval bwa - groups à pied - gwo ka - ti bwa |
bélè - biguine - manege |
accordion - bélè - bell - clarinet - chacha (rattle) - flute - kazoo - tanbour - tanbou débonda - tibwa - trombone |
lewoz - masquerade |
Montserratian[28][29] |
jumbie |
bam-chick-lay - country dance (goatskin, drum dance) - jumbie - polka - quadrille |
accordion - babala (jumbie drum, tambourine) - bagpipe - boom pipe - fife (pulley) - French reel (skin drum, woowoo, jumbie drum) - gradge - shak-shak - triangle - cuatro (yokolee, ukulele) |
obeah - rum shop |
Puerto Rican[6][7][11][30] |
aguinaldo - bomba - copla (music) - danza - jíbaro - plena - requinto - seis - tipica |
bomba |
bomba - bongo - conga - cowbell - cuatro - güiro - maraca - pandereta - requinto - seguidora |
controversia - parranda - trovador |
Surinamese[7][8][20][23] |
aleko - badji - birha - bigi poku - kaseko - kawina - lonsei - matkor (matticore) - tan - Baithak Gana |
kawina |
dhantal - dholak - djas - hari kawina - koti kawina - kwatro - papai benta - rattle - skratji - timbal |
ampuku - kumanti - obia pee - vodu - Winti |
Trinidadian and Tobagonian[6][7] |
bamboula - bele - calypso - gayap - juba - lavway - parang - steelpan |
calinda |
bandolin - bo - cuatro - dhantal - dholak - omele - steelpan - tassa |
calypso tent - camboulay - chantwell - Jamette - j'ouvert - picong - Shango - Trinidad and Tobago Carnival |
Turks and Caicos[31] |
ripsaw |
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accordion - glass bottle - box guitar - musical saw - concertina - conch horn - conga drum - harmonica - maraca - mouth organ - triangle |
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Vincentian[32][33] |
bele - Big Drum - string band |
big drum - quadrille |
Big Drum |
chantwell - Vincy mas |
Virgin Islander[34] |
bamboula - cariso - scratch (fungi) band - quelbe (quelbay)-iron bands- masquerade |
jig - quadrille (Imperial Quadrille, Flat German Quadrille)-Bamboula |
accordion - ass pipe - banjo - flute - drum (double-headed barrel) - gourd - guitar - squash - tambourine - ukulele - violin - washboard |
David and Goliath - masquerade - tea meeting |