Pandereta
date: label: Date made
content: 20th century
notes: label: Description
content: This large, hand-held drum, known in Puerto Rico as a <i>pandereta</i>, is an essential instrument in the musical genre known as <i>plena</i>. The <i>plena</i> was developed by agricultural workers at the end of the 19th century on the southern coast of the island, around the city of Ponce. Considered a national musical genre throughout the 20th century, the <i>plena</i> may have originally reflected musical traditions brought to Puerto Rico by immigrants from other Caribbean islands.
label: Description (Spanish)
content: Este gran tambor de mano, conocido en Puerto Rico como pandereta, es un instrumento esencial dentro del género musical conocido como plena. La plena surgió entre los trabajadores del campo a fines del siglo XIX en la costa sureña de la isla, alrededor de la ciudad de Ponce. A lo largo del siglo XX se la consideró como género de música nacional, si bien originalmente puede haber reflejado tradiciones musicales llevadas a Puerto Rico por inmigrantes de otras islas del Caribe.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: Place Made
content: Puerto Rico: Bayamón, Bayamón
title: label: Title
content: <i>Plena</i> Drum
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content: Home and Community Life: Ethnic
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content: Music & Musical Instruments
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content: Cultures & Communities
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content: Vidal
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of Teodoro Vidal
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1997.0097.1095
label: accession number
content: 1997.0097
label: catalog number
content: 1997.0097.1095
objectType: label: Object Name
content: drum, pandereta
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: leather (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: wood (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: metal (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: paint (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 7.5 cm x 31 cm; 2 15/16 in x 12 3/16 in