Aguinaldo
Aguinaldo is a traditional Puerto Rican Christmas music genre featuring upbeat folk songs with call-and-response vocals, performed in lively parranda house-to-house celebrations from Christmas Eve through early January.
Origin: Puerto Rico, blending Spanish villancico traditions with Taíno and African rhythmic influences.
Era: 18th-century origins in Spanish colonial Puerto Rico, evolving through the 19th and 20th centuries as a cornerstone of holiday traditions.
