Afro-Latin American Music

• The history of Afro-Latin American music can be traced during the European colonization and slave trade in Africa
• Latin America comprises different regions Such as the Caribbean, Mexico, and Central and South America. Which are diversified cultures of the Europeans, Moors, Mexicans, and other tribes.
• European countries contributed religions and languages like Spanish and Portuguese.
• Slave Trade Period

  • 1550-1880
• They were their "talking" drums because they imitate the human voice.
• Characteristics of Afro-Latin American Music

  1. Conversation (Call and Response)
  2. Improvisation
  3. The voice as an instrument
  4. The instrument as a voice
• The enslaved Moors in North America in 1776 were prohibited from playing drums.
• In Congo Square, New Orleans, Caribbean slaves could play drums for recreation, entertainment, and communication.
• The 18th-19th centuries marked the fusion of African music with new forms in North America, blending African rhythms, Indian cymbals, and musical syncopation, which gave rise to jazz
• Habanera and Bolero in Cuba
• Samba and Bossa Nova in Brazil
• Tango in Argentina