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n. A Garifuna style of festive music and dance.
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Punta is a Garifuna music and dance style performed at celebrations and festive occasions. (Garifuna music and dance was created by the Garifuna people of present-day St. Vincent and Dominica.)
The best known traditional dance in Honduras, Belize, Guatemala, and parts of Nicaragua is Punta (called banguity), before the arrival of the Garifuna people in Punta Gorda, Roatan, Honduras on April 12 of 1797. The first album record of traditional punta music was released originally on 1955 in Honduras by Stone record, a Belizean record company. Sambunango made famous by Gatos Bravos of Honduras, released in 1987, it's known as the first commercially produced punta music song from Honduras. The most famous song of punta music is Sopa De Caracol made famous by Banda Blanca, The song was originally written be Belizean singer Hernan "Chico" Ramos, and translated into Spanish by Banda Blanca. It's mostly popular in Honduras, where it comes from.
Contemporary punta arose in the last thirty years of the twentieth century in Belize, while the earliest notions of the punta dance precede the coming together of the West African tribes and the Amerindian tribes of the Caribbean in the 17th century The diaspora of Garinagu people, commonly called the "Garifuna Nation", dates back to their origins of the amalgamation of West African slaves and the Arawak and Carib Amerindians. Punta is used to reaffirm and express the struggle felt by those of the indigenous population's common heritage through cultural art forms, such as dance and music and to highlight their strong sense of endurance. Besides Belize, punta also has a following in Honduras, Guatemala, Nicaragua, El Salvador, Southern Mexico and the United States.
Lyrics may be in Garifuna, Kriol, English or Spanish. However, most songs are performed in the indigenous Awarak and Carib-based languages of the Garinagu and are often simply contemporary adaptations of traditional Garifuna songs. Being the most popular dance in Garifuna culture, punta can be performed at wakes, holidays, parties, ancestral celebrations, and other social events. Punta is iconic of Garifuna ethnicity and modernity, and can be seen as a poetic folk art that connects older cultures and rhythms with new sound. Chumba and hunguhungu, circular dances in triple rhythm, are often combined with punta.
Punta may refer to:
- Punta, a form of Central American Garinagu music
- Punta rock, a rock version of Punta music
- The modern name of Actium, an ancient town in western Greece
- Punta (butterfly), a genus of grass skipper butterfly
- Punta, a barangay in Calamba City, Philippines
- "Punta", Spanish for "point" or promontory, is a part of many Spanish toponyms
Punta is a genus of skippers in the family Hesperiidae.
Usage examples of "punta".
Whatever rapport Bloor and I had developed with the Striker people was wearing very thin after three days of increasingly strange behavior and the antisocial attitude we apparently manifested at the big Striker cocktail party at the Punta Morena beach bar was clearly unacceptable.
Punta Parise, at the western end of the island, beneath the shadow of Monte Alberto Sole.
Punta Carnero, Punta Secreta, Punta del Fraile, and Punta Acebuche were all astern: Tarifa was not far off.
On the Atlantic side alone, this frontier included the entire coast from the Yucatan Peninsula to Punta de Gallinas, Colombia.
First he had to find it, then work round the seaward end, but at the same time he dare not risk missing the entrance to the river, the Rio Guanche, because they would then blunder into a shallow bay and two islands which were only a mile or so beyond and came immediately before Punta Cocal, the western entrance to Portobelo.
Punta Tamarindo, with Bahia Tamarindo to the south down to Punta Tamarindo Chico.
Ramage, Yorke, Jackson and Stafford stood on Punta Tamarindo while the sun rose behind them.
He would have preferred to go to his own room and sit alone for an hour or two: the visit to Punta Tamarindo was a bigger disappointment than he cared to admit.
Taking a party of seamen to Punta Tamarindo to dig by the light of lanterns might attract the attention of the local folk and, for the moment, the less they knew the better.
Punta Tamarindo must be one of the most isolated places in the Caribbean anyway.
Punta Tamarindo in little more than an hour, and leaving the seamen and Marines waiting twenty yards back, Ramage took Yorke and Jackson to the casuarina tree.
Punta Tamarindo, where he and half a dozen seamen were supposed to be filling in the trenches.
Most of the seamen had been moved up to Punta Tamarindo, slinging their hammocks between trees, to save the long walk every morning.
Ramage read a burial service, the ground was smoothed over, and the working party marched away from Punta Tamarindo for the last time.
El que venía en punta le asestó un codazo a Rufino, que estaba cerca de la puerta.