Popular Latin America Music

• Samba

  • dance form of African origins around 1838
  • evolved into an African-Brazilian invention in the working class and slum districts of Rio de Janeiro
  • Batucada is the most adventurous kind of samba
• Son

  • Fusion of the popular music or “canciones” of Spain and the African rumba rhythms of Bantu origin
  • Originating in Cuba
  • it is usually played with the tres (guitar), contrabass, bongos, maracas, and claves.
• Salsa

  • Social dance with marked influences from Cuba and Puerto Rico
  • Its style contains elements from the swing dance and hustle as well as the complex Afro-Cuban and Afro- Carribean dance forms of pachanga and guaguanco.
• Mariachi

  • Its roots go back hundreds of years
  • It was the music of country people; music that celebrated the joys, the struggles, and the triumphs of the Mexican people.
• What are the marked influences of the social dance Salsa?

  Cuba and Puerto Rico