{"id":4692,"date":"2014-11-30T00:00:25","date_gmt":"2014-11-30T06:00:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.orijinculture.com\/community\/?p=4692"},"modified":"2014-12-08T01:46:28","modified_gmt":"2014-12-08T07:46:28","slug":"tamb-music-dance-afro-curaao","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/orijinculture.com\/community\/tamb-music-dance-afro-curaao\/","title":{"rendered":"Tamb\u00fa: The banned Music & Dance of Afro-Cura\u00e7ao"},"content":{"rendered":"

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<\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><div class=\"stag-section stag-video\"><iframe title=\"Tambu: Banned and Illegal Music and Dance of Curacao\" width=\"1000\" height=\"563\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/qHFhV67Rfr0?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div><br \/>\nLocated in the southern Caribbean sea, the island of Cura\u00e7ao is the largest island of the lesser Antilles and is comprised of many ethnicities including Arawak, Dutch, Spanish, West Indian, Latin, and African. Although Dutch is the Curacao official language, and English and Spanish are also widely spoken, many residents speak Papiamentu \u2014 a Creole mixture of Spanish, Portuguese, Dutch, French, English, and Arawak Indian. The main language, Papiamentu, is encompassing many African influences and was once used to bridge the gap between the slaves and owners.<br \/>\nBeing the dominant group on the island, African descendant have ensured that many of their ancestral cultural practices and traditions were preserved. The in influence of their African orijin is pronounced in many aspect of life, including music, dance and language. Brought to the island as slaves by the Ducth in the 17th century, Africans in Cura\u00e7ao have managed to maintain their connection to their ancestral homeland through dances such as the tamb\u00fa. A product of the slave knit communities on the island, tamb\u00fa served as the cultural expression of an oppressed people.<br \/>\nUsing the basic instruments of a drum (also known as the tamb\u00fa ), the chapi (hoe) and heru, an iron idiophone, which are beaten into rhytemic patterns, he tamb\u00fa dance requires isolation of body parts with elaborate hip gyrations. While the moves of the tamb\u00fa are often referred to as \u201csuggestive,\u201d it follows a strict etiquette of no physical touching, which is said to add to the eroticism and sexual appeal of the dance. Due to the suggestive nature of the dance, it was long banned and persecuted for many years by the Catholic Church and government. However, despite colonial efforts to cub an abolish aspects of their African ancestry and orijin, African descendants in Cura\u00e7ao developed creative ways to evade persecution and remain connected to their African ancestry.<br \/>\nTaking from the practice of their African ancestors, tamb\u00fa is almost always accompanied by singing which follow a call and response pattern. Dubbed the \u201cCura\u00e7ao blues,\u201d tamb\u00fa music provided as a means for slaves in Cura\u00e7ao to express their sarrows and hardships on plantations.<br \/>\nToday, tamb\u00fa music and dance serves not only as a means of entertainment, but also as a representation of African culture, ancestry and history in Cura\u00e7ao.<\/p>\n<p><iframe src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/ooEKAoV5WVk\" width=\"635\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><iframe src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/VnfM8WYtWOQ\" width=\"635\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><iframe src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/e7O0YBtGrBQ\" width=\"635\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<div class=\"stag-section stag-video\"><iframe title=\"KiT (Kuenta i Tamb\u00fa) - Jackhammer (Official Music Video)\" width=\"1000\" height=\"563\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/T-QHG0yxtV0?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>Tamb\u00fa: The banned Music & Dance of Afro- Cura\u00e7ao<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Inspired by Bob Marley\u2019s philosophy \u201cNone but ourselves can free our mind\u201d, Orijin is a unique \u201cCulture Brand\u201d connecting all African descendants together through it\u2019s <a href=\"http:\/\/ORIJINSTORE.COM\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Fashion brand<\/a> and thought provoking magazine to influence our lifestyles world wide\u2026.Don\u2019t just WEAR Culture, SHARE Culture.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Located in the southern Caribbean sea, the island of Cura\u00e7ao is the largest island of the lesser Antilles and is comprised of many ethnicities including<br><a class=\"moretag signature-animation\" href=\"https:\/\/orijinculture.com\/community\/tamb-music-dance-afro-curaao\/\">CONTINUE READING<\/a>","protected":false},"author":877,"featured_media":4695,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2993],"tags":[4355,4159,4051,4354,3233,3999,372,4353],"class_list":["post-4692","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-hidden-cultures","tag-african-culture","tag-african-descendants","tag-african-diaspora","tag-afro-curacao","tag-dance","tag-diaspora","tag-music","tag-tambu"],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/orijinculture.com\/community\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/tambu.jpg?wsr","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/orijinculture.com\/community\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4692","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/orijinculture.com\/community\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/orijinculture.com\/community\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orijinculture.com\/community\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/877"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orijinculture.com\/community\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4692"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/orijinculture.com\/community\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4692\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6767,"href":"https:\/\/orijinculture.com\/community\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4692\/revisions\/6767"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orijinculture.com\/community\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4695"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/orijinculture.com\/community\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4692"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orijinculture.com\/community\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4692"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orijinculture.com\/community\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4692"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}