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The traditional music of Panama

TAMBORITO

The music of Panama is the result of miscegenation, especially that which has occurred during the last five hundred years between the Iberian traditions, especially those of Andalusia, and the Canary Islands, the American Indians and those of West Africa.

The musical expression that is considered to be the most representative of Panamanians is the little drum. In it it is interpreted with drums and the live voice of the singer accompanied by a choir, it is the song used to cheer up the patron saint festivities of the different towns of the interior, and very especially in the carnivals of the region where the drum of street or tuna which is the delegation that in a tour of the town accompany the queen chosen for the four days of revelry. The most traditional singer with the longest career in Panama is Lucila Aura Jaén Córdoba or Lucy Jaén.

 PUNTO

The point is an indigenous musical genre of Panama, which includes a melodic and choreographic form in its structure. It has a composition created specifically for the dance, executed by a single couple who show off grace, precision, and grace. It is of pure Hispanic descent and is considered the most beautiful and elegant dance and musical genre in the entire Isthmus of Panama.

It is not an all-night dance like the drum and the Panamanian cumbia can be; the pindín and the marjoram. Rather, it is danced as an attractive demonstration between the minutes of the rest of the dance, to feast the eyes and enjoy the spirit of the attendance at a party. If the couple shows off, the audience erupts in applause and there are even coins that roll on the ground, in their honor. Many times the enthusiastic musicians have paid their homage to notable dancers, 'bending' the drums as they designate by bowing them in front of the lady's feet.

CONGOS

The Congos is an Afrocolonial culture, musical genre and dance concentrated mainly in the Costa Arriba and Costa down of the province of Colón that is characterized by a violent and erotic expression when dancing and also almost always associate a kind of mimic and theatrical representation that has as thematic, historical episodes of the infamous black trade, slavery and the consequent black rebellions during the times of the conquest and the colony in it, it is also considered the oldest drum genre and dance of the Isthmus of Panama.