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society enjoy. The country’s folk music reflects Spanish, West Indian,

African, and even North American influences.

The mejorana is a folk song probably imported from Spain in the

eighteenth century. It can be either vocal or instrumental but is seldom

used for dancing. The national folk dances are the tamborito and the

cumbia. Couples perform the cumbia in a rotating circle to the sound of

maracas and drums. The dance reputedly mimics the behavior of the

colonial Spaniards and was brought to the area with the African slave

trade. The tamborito is also a dance with and old Afro-Spanish history. It

was popular in seventeenth-century Spain and is based on African

rhythms. The tamborito is performed to clapping hands and several

drums. Both dances are traditionally seen during fiestas and Carnival

Nationalism has been the major theme of most Panamanian

literature. Ramon Valdes published Independence of the Isthmus of

Panama just after the country freed itself from Columbia. His work

became the basis for most of the historical treaties that followed. Ricardo

Miro became the national poet during this s

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