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Creolization in the Spanish Caribbean

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 2nd April 2022 MUSI 322 Professor Chrsitine Gangelhoff I posted that creolization was very conspicuous throughout many blogs and was analyzed according to the Caribbean region. Finally, this blog will focus on creolization in the Spanish-speaking Caribbean. Professor Gangelhoff, in the Spanish one lecture video, Professor spoke on Afro-Cuban, and this was where I first took notice of creolization. According to the lecture video on Afro Cuban, unique features are:        Santeria is a fusion of Yoruba and Catholicism       Bata drumming and singing is conspicuous        Double-headed hourglass of different sizes        Voice and percussion instruments       Polyrhythm and call and response texture (Gangelhoff, 2019).  Below is an image of an ensemble group called Omo Abillona; according to the youtube description, they are four young players of bata drums coming from the Afro-Cuban commun...