The music of the caribbean counterpoints revolves around folk, ritual, and dance hall music in a new mode. Out of the chapter the “most important aspects of Candomble and Macumba as the main links to samba, the national dance of Brazil”. Africanisms show their emotion in brazil by a traditional dance and this takes place in Rio de Janeiro in the south where there’s colorful carnivals. The taditional music and dance of the Orixas, which consist of three drums which have three elements of music that are drum chorus, bells, and rattles. As stated “The drums, called "atabaque" are the "rum", the largest, the "rumpi", the middle, and there is a smaller one. The rattles or "afox" accentuate the cross-rhythms provided by the drums, and
