Kriol Music in Belize
The most well-known styles created by Kriol musician is brukdown. The brukdown evolved out the music and dance of loggers, especially ...
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The
most well-known styles created by Kriol musician is brukdown. The brukdown
evolved out the music and dance of loggers, especially in the form of buru. The
buru is often satirical in nature, and eventually it grew more urban, then
joined by a donkey’s jawbone, percuss and a banjo. The world brudown came from
the broken down calypso, which means to the similarities between brukdown and Trinidadian
calypso music; the presence of large numbers of the Jamaicans in Belize that
also led to influence the mento music.
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The
recent forms, the new instruments have been added to brukdown, the boom and
chime orchestra use bass guitar, electronic guitar and congas for example. The
famous brukdown orchestra which includes the Tigers, the mahogany Chips, Mimi
Female Duet and Brad Pattico, Brukdown remain a rural, rarely recorded genre.
