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Kantan Chamorrita is an ancient style of improvised rhyming "debate" indigenous to the Chamoru natives of the Mariana Islands,^[1] comparable to modern-day "battle rapping" or poetry slams.

See also

Music of Guam

External links

ChamorroWeb.com Archived 2008-09-23 at the Wayback Machine
Kantan Chamorrita at Guampedia.com

References

^ Souder, Laura (Summer 1993). "Kantan Chamorrita: Traditional Chamorro Poetry, Past and Future". Manoa. 5 (1). University of Hawai'i Press: 189–192. JSTOR 4228865.

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