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mento

style of Jamaican folk music
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mento

Summary

mento is a music genre[1]. mento draws 671 Wikipedia views per month (music_genre category, ranking #363 of 1,946).[2]

Key Facts

  • mento's instance of is recorded as music genre[3].
  • mento is a type of Jamaican folk music[4].
  • mento's country of origin is recorded as Jamaica[5].
  • January 1, 1890 marks the founding of mento[6].
  • mento's topic's main category is recorded as Category:Mento[7].
  • mento's has characteristic is recorded as folk music genre[8].
  • mento's different from is recorded as calypso[9].

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Definition and Type

mento's instance of is recorded as music genre[3]. mento is a type of Jamaican folk music[4].

Origins

January 1, 1890 marks the founding of mento[6].

Why It Matters

mento draws 671 Wikipedia views per month (music_genre category, ranking #363 of 1,946).[2] mento has Wikipedia articles in 12 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[10]

Related Entities

Jamaica

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  2. [4] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  3. [5] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  4. [6] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  5. [7] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  6. [8] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  7. [9] ↑ . wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [10] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.

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  1. 3d ago · Twofivesixbot bot · 2026-05-17 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Inception → —
    Aliases → —
    Topic's main category → Category:Mento
    Has characteristic → folk music genre
    + 8 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
    "/* wbsetclaim-update-qualifiers:1||1|4 */ [[Property:P2347]]: 29788, mv to monolingual text names on YSO statements"
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