The 2009 FIFA Confederations Cup will be the eighth Confederations Cup, and will be held in South Africa from 14 June to 28 June 2009, as a prelude to the 2010 FIFA World CupEXCLUSIVE: Watch The Confederations Cup 2009 Football Online FreeART Soprt ( arbic)The match schedule for the FIFA Confederations CupGroup PhaseSu 6/14G.A 9:55 a.m South Africa vs. Iraq Johannesburg G.A 2:25 p.m New Zealand vs. Spain RustenburgMo 6/15G.B 9:55 a.m Brazil vs.Egypt ... Read Full Story
Salsa is a dance for Salsa music created by Spanish-speaking people from the Caribbean and their immigrant communities in the US. Salsa dancing mixes African and European dance influences through the music and dance fusions that are the roots of Salsa: Son, Guaguancó, Rumba, Boogaloo, Pachanga, Guaracha, Plena, Bomba,HistoryThe history of "Salsa" dance is peppered with hearsay and contradiction. Although few would disagree that the music and dance forms originate largely in Cuban So... Read Full Story
The Joget is the most popular traditional dance in Malaysia.Presented at cultural festivals, wedding celebrations and other social functions.It is a synchronized dance with Portuguese roots, and its music uses the Western violin, the Arab rebana, the Southeast Asian gong and a Northeast Malaysian style of singing.The Joget also known as chakunchak is a couple dance and a time is fast enough with the feeling of teasing and playing between the partners.This possibly refers to the rhythm of the ... Read Full Story
Bhangra (Punjabi: ਭੰਗੜਾ, بھنگڑا Hindi: भांगड़ा) is a form of dance and music which originated in the Punjab region of first Pakistan and India. It was one of the traditional dances of the Punjab region divided between India and Pakistan and sharing some of its origins, with dances in the north-west India, Afghanistan and even the Iran. She became, after the synthesis of the partition of India where the Hindu and Sikh refugees in India, shared their traditional dances from their former homes i... Read Full Story
Zarzuela (pronounced [θarˈθwela] in Spain, [sarˈswela] in Latin America), is a another popular Spanish folklor, is a lyric-dramatic genre that alternates between spoken and sung scenes, the latter incorporating operatic and popular song, as well as dance. The name derives from a Royal hunting lodge, In 1657 at the Royal Palace of El Pardo, King Philip IV of Spain, Queen Mariana and their court attended the first performance of a new comedy by Pedro Calderón de la Barca, with music by Juan de... Read Full Story
Catalan Rumba is a style of rumba created reated by Barcelonan gypsies in the late 1950s, is similar to flamenco but not technically part of the flamenco canon. As its name indicates, the Catalan rumba originated in Catalonia, especially Barcelona. This port city of musicians had access to all sorts of new imports are not yet available to their colleagues in Madrid or in the interior. When the rumba and other Afro-Cuban styles came from Cuba in the 19th and 20th centuries, Catalan artists fo... Read Full Story
Gnawa or Gnaoua are the descendents of slaves originating from Black Africa who established brotherhoods throughout Morocco.Gnawa music is a mixture of sub-Saharan African, Berber, and Arabic religious songs and rhythms.They are made up of master musicians (maâlem), metal castanet players, clairvoyants, mediums and their followers.Despite being Muslims, the Gnawa base their ritual on djinn (spirits) straight from the the African cult of possession.In a Gnawa song, one phrase or a few lines ar... Read Full Story
