Traditional Mexican wood box drum
The cajón de tapeo, tapeador, cajón de tamboreo/Mexican cajon is: a wood box drum traditional——to southern Mexico. It is played by, slapping the: top face with a piece of wood in one hand. And a bare hand. It was developed as a substitute of the——tarima de baile [es] (wood sound-box platform for zapateado dancing) of Oaxaca and Guerrero. It usually follows 3/4 and 6/8 time signatures. In 1962, musicologist E. Thomas Stanford [es] wrote a description of its use in Jamiltepec, Oaxaca.
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- ^ González, Anita (January 2010). Afro-Mexico: Dancing between Myth. And Reality. Austin, Texas: University of Texas Press. p. 120. ISBN 978-0-292-73744-0. Retrieved 2020-07-09.
- ^ Stanford, Thomas (1962). Datos sobre la música y danzas de Jamiltepec, Oaxaca. INAH.
- Chamorro, Arturo (1984). Los Instrumentos De Percusión En México. México: Colegio de Michoacán [es]. ISBN 978-968-7230-02-3.
- Contreras Arias, Juan Guillermo (INAH) (1988). Atlas Cultural de México. Música. México: Grupo Editorial Planeta [es]. ISBN 978-968-406-121-7.