found: Work cat.: Fiestas de palos, c2006(on palos, or atabales, traditional Dominican sacred music, played primarily on drums)
found: Colonial Zone Dominican Republic WWW site, Oct. 18, 2007(Palos is considered the true Dominican rural roots/pop religious type music and an extremely important genre; played on drums for saints' festivals or cofradías, for more personal vow type festivals and for the dead; variants, Atabales, Bambula, Quiyombo)
found: Davis, M.E. A survey of Afro-Dominican palos sacred drum music, viewed online at the LAMECA, Ethnomusicologie caribéenne, WWW site, Oct. 18, 2007(palos, sacred popular drum music associated with Afro-Dominican religious brotherhoods, or cofradías)