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Other forms of Garifuna music and dance include Chumba and Hunguhungu , a circular dance in a three beat rhythm, which is often combined with punta. There are other songs typical to each gender, women having Eremwu Eu and Abaimajani , rhythmic A Cappella songs, and Laremuna Wadauman , men's Work Song s. Other forms of Dance Music include Matamuerte , Gunchei , Charikawi and Sambai .

Paranda music developed soon after the Garifunas arrival in Central America. The music is instrumental and Percussion -based. The music was barely recorded until the 1990s , when Ivan Duran of Stonetree Records began the Paranda Project .

In 2001, Garifuna music was proclaimed one of the Masterpieces Of The Oral And Intangible Heritage Of Humanity by UNESCO .