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- gua-gua
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- 1. Latin-American slang term used for a bus or van.
2. The term used for the hollowed bamboo piece that is mounted and used to play Palitos patterns. The Gua-Gua is said to "drive
the ensemble."
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- guaguancó
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One of the three Rumba styles, it is a medium
to fast style played on the tumbadoras or cajones along with the clave,
palitos, bombo
and shekerés and danced traditionally by a male and
a female depicting the sexual "capture" of the female by the male with a thrust
called the Vacunáo.
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- guajeó
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Originally the term used to describe the repeated rhythmic figure of the Tres in the Changui
and Son styles, it was later also used to desribe the
same function by the string section in the Charangas
and later the Moñas of the horn section.
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- guajira
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1. A songstyle originating with the Campesinos
containing elements of the Spanish Canción and the
Cuban Son. It is societally somewhat of a parallel to the
Blues of America. The lyric content is sometimes sad or longing, nostalgic or expressing
the difficulties of an impoverished life-style. 2. Slang term for a Cuban peasant woman.
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- guajiro
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A slang term for a (male) Cuban peasant and sometimes used as a term for a cowboy
type peasant farmer or rancher.
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- guapacha
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A secondary rhythm step in clave-based dances,
used by experienced rhythm dancers as an accent when appropriate to the segment of music.
The break step on "2" (or in dance count either "2" or "6")
is delayed a half beat, stepping instead on the "and" before "3." A
specific syncopation, most frequently applied to Chachachá.
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- guaracha
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1. Traditionally an ealy form of street peasant music with satirical lyric
content somewhat in the Son rhythm style. 2. Loose term
for a general medium tempo Son Montuno or little
brighter style tune or groove.
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- guataca
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Hoe blade used in the conga de Comparsa. A
hoe blade (played with a large nail or railroad spike) used to play what later became Cowbell accompaniments to the Rumba Columbia and
other folkloric Afro 6/8 styles. Folkloric ensembles still use this instrument.
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- guayo
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A larger version of the guiro.
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- guicharo
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Term used to describe guiros with finer ridges, particularly
those found in some Puerto Rican styles.
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- guira
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The term used to describe the metal scraper (guiro, scraped
with a metal fork or Afro comb) used in the Dominican Merengue style.
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- guiro
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A serrated gourd, scraped with a stick, very popular in Afro-Cuban, as well as
other Latin American countries, music. 1. (Instrument) Calabash gourd with ridges carved
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- Habanera
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Style emanating from the Contradanza and
Danza, it was the final precursor to the Danzón style.
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- hembra
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The female, larger of any two paired percussive instruments (bongos, clave, timbales,etc).
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- hierro
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Term used to describe the Guataca - the hoe blade - or
other metal sound used as the cowbell accompaniment
to the Rumba Columbia
and other folkloric Afro 6/8 styles.
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- itótele
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The middle drum of the set of three Batá
drums.
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- iyesá (drums)
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A set of four sacred, cylindrical, two-headed drums of hand-carved cedar, played
with sticks.
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- iyá
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The lead, and largest, drum (mother drum, Iyá Ilú) of the set of three Batá drums.
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Izquierdo, Pedro (Pello el Afrokán)
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- See Pello
el Afrokán.
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