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RARA - Rara is a form of festival music that originated in Haiti, that is used for street processions, typically during Easter Week. The music centers on a ...
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| A bird, the South American plant-cutter, Phytotoma rara. Also called rarita. See cut under Phytotoma. |
| Latin: rare bird. Word Origin and History for brarab avis Expand. n. c.1600, "peculiar person," from Latin brarab avis, literally "strange bird," from brarab, fem. of rarus "rare" (see rare (adj.1)) avis "bird" (see aviary). Latin plural is rar aves. |
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| Rara is a form of festival music that originated in Haiti, that is used for street processions, typically during Easter Week. The music centers on a set of cylindrical bamboo trumpets called vaccine, but also features drums, maracas, güiras or güiros (a percussion instrument), and metal bells, as well as sometimes also cylindrical metal trumpets which are made from recycled metal, often coffee cans. The vaccine perform repeating patterns in hocket and often strike their instruments rhythmically with a stick while blowing into them. In the modern day, standard trumpets and saxophones may also be used. The genre though predominantly Afro-based has some Taino Amerindian elements to it such as the use of güiros and maracas.* The songs are always performed in Haitian Creole and typically celebrate the African ancestry of the Afro-Haitian masses. Vodou is often implemented through the procession. The genre was imported to the Dominican Republic and is now an integral part of the Afro-Dominic |