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Saint's Festival ( Maybe add to cultural contributions or tie into music and religion categories) *Work in Progress*

The Saint's festival, also known as Velación, is a ritual event in the Dominican Republic with notable diaspora influences on folk religion and music. The music of the folk-Catholic in the Dominican Republic, Salve, includes two subgenres of liturgical and non-liturgical. The two are vastly different with liturgical being more melodic and sacred while non-liturgical is more of a call-and-response evolved from African roots. Non-liturgical music is accompanied by panderos, polyrhythmic frame drums, and is played with no specific plan in mind. Non-liturgical is free-flowing and led with a variety of different tempo and style changes. The music is intense with acceleration and shorter lengths of phrases.


 * Focusing on what I should actually add that will benefit the article
 * Music is very broad and the festival is also a big topic

https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.5406/blacmusiresej.32.1.0161