01806nas a2200205   4500000000100000000000100001008004100002653001900043653001400062653001500076653001800091653002400109100001700133245013300150856015400283300001200437490000700449520112400456022002001580                                       d10aAfrodescendant10aGarífuna10aPalenquero10apopular music10aEndangered language1 aLea Ramsdell00aLanguage Retention through Music in Two Afrodescendant Communities of Latin America: Garifuna Punta Rock and Palenquero Champeta  uhttps://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-85096527638&doi=10.1080%2f13569325.2020.1788521&partnerID=40&md5=54a82fb835de271b0d01ea791c606b8f  a445-4590 v293 aBeginning in the 1990s, governments as well as international entities, such as UNESCO, heeded the alarm from scholars and community activists that many of the world’s languages were on the road to extinction. In the context of the Americas, programmes to protect the languages of indigenous and Afrodescendant populations were developed but rarely fully funded. The Garífuna of Central America and the Palenqueros of San Basilio de Palenque in Colombia are two Afrodescendant communities with their own languages that have been declared as Masterpieces of Oral and Intangible Cultural Heritage by UNESCO. In the face of the erosion of their cultures and languages, community members nurtured popular music forms sung in their respective languages in order to increase their linguistic prestige. Garífuna punta rock and paranda as well as Palenquero champeta have endured both condemnation and appropriation by dominant cultures and the global culture market. In the end, however, they have successfully attracted the youth of both communities to their heritage languages, serving as a vehicle to stem language loss.  a13569325 (ISSN)