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Big Drum is a genre and a musical instrument from the Windward Islands. It is a kind of Caribbean music, associated mostly closely with the music of Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, Music of Guadeloupe, Carriacou in Grenada and in the music of Saint Kitts and Nevis. ==Origin== All big drum celebration is accompanied by the boula drum. The word ''boula'' can refer to at least four different drums played in the Caribbean music area. The Guadeloupean ''boula'' is a hand drum, similar to the ''tambou bèlè'', and is used in ''gwo ka'' and special occasions likes wakes, wrestling matches and Carnival celebrations. It is a hand drum that plays low-pitched sounds and is played single-handed and transversally. The ''boula'' of Carriacou is also a hand drum, now most often made of rum casks. It is also called the ''tambou dibas'', and is used in the Big Drum tradition.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Tombstone - Big Drum - Saraca )〕 The ''boula'' of Trinidad and Tobago accompanies the stick-fighting dance called ''kalenda'', and is a double-headed barrel drum, played open-handed. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「big drum」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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