Paranda

This woman's hair-braid ornament variously called paranda, phundri, chotiu, or balchoti is used all over India.

Punta rock songs are usually composed by men and are most often based on the rhythm and/or text of existing punta and paranda songs. Paranda songs are Spanish-influenced songs composed and performed by men, with a duple-meter rhythm very similar to that of punta.

Despite the efforts of Andy Pand many others in the struggle for cultural sensitivity in Central America, and although paranda musician Aurelio Martinez, 31, was elected in 2005 along with two other Garifuna representatives to the National Congress of Honduras, making history as the first Garifuna congressmen in 75 years, a little anecdote shows how much more public education...

Unlike punta rock, paranda music is totally unplugged, played on wooden Garifuna drums, acoustic guitars and primitive percussion instruments, such as shakers and turtle shells.