It is part of the tradition to start cooking the pernil early in the morning by playing or listening to Puerto Rican (or aguinaldos) Christmas carols. Coquito, the Puerto Rican version of eggnog is also a big part of the celebration. Throughout Latin America, pernil asado is a classic fo...
Christmas carols are the same ones popular in the Western world, but their versions are set to a Reggae style, the syncopated style of music for which Jamiaica is famous. Christmas dinner is usually a big feast. It includes the traditional jerked or curried chicken and goat, and rice with ...
See also:Polish Christmas Carolsand other(European) Carols Renaissance Anonymous or unattributed » MIDI| Greensleeves Most people seem to associate this tune with the Middle Ages, but I have read that its musical patterns put it firmly in the late 1600s. Other tunes called Greensleeves are ...
dancing to steel pan bands, and to attend fêtes.Carriacou Parang Festivalis another completely unique experience as performers use only percussion instruments as they sing along to Christmas carols. Trinidad and Tobago also
“Fa la la la”) or irrelevant rigmaroles of flowers or herbs. A few ballads have stanza-length burdens interspersed between the narrative stanzas, a technique borrowed from themedievalcarols. The lyrical and incantatory effect of refrains during the ballad performance is very appealing, but in...