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Panama
Title: Panama
Category: Literature / English
Details: Words: 1116 | Pages: 4.7 (approximately 235 words/page)
Panama
Panamanian Arts
Panama has rich folk culture, which Panamanians at all levels of
society enjoy. The country’s folk music reflects Spanish, West Indian,
African, and even North American influences.
The mejorana is a folk song probably imported from Spain in the
eighteenth century. It can be either vocal or instrumental but is seldom
used for dancing. The national folk dances are the tamborito and the
cumbia. Couples perform the cumbia in a rotating circle …showed first 75 words of 1116 total…
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…showed last 75 words of 1116 total…the music of a sublime song.
You see, roaring at your feet, two oceans
Which give direction to your noble mission.
On your flower-covered soil,
Kissed by the warm breeze,
Warlike clamour has ended
And only brotherly love reigns.
Ahead, with spade and stone-mason's hammer!
To work, without more delay!
In this way we shall be the honour and glory
Of this fertile land of Columbus.
Adopted in 1925
Words by JERÓNIMO DE LA OSSA (1847-1907)
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