MUSIC

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Music of Latin America is the product of three major influences

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Indigenous, European, and African (It includes the countries that have had a colonial history from Spain and Portugal.)

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Largely functional in nature, being used for religious worship and ceremonies.

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Indigenous Latin-American Music

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Natives were found to be using local drum and percussion instruments such as the guiro, maracas, and turtle shells, and wind instruments such as zampona ( pan pipes) and quena (notched-end flutes).

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Indigenous Latin-American Music

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Materials came from hollow tree trunks, animal skins, fruit shells, dry seeds, jaguar claws, animal and human bones and especially-treated inflated eyes of tigers.

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Indigenous Latin-American Music

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influence on Latin American music is most pronounced in its rich and varied rhythmic patterns produced by the drums and various percussion instruments.

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Afro-Latin American music

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Melodies of the Renaissance period were used in Southern Chile and the Colombian Pacific coasts.

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Euro-Latin American

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Step-wise melodies were preferred in the heavily Hispanic and Moorish-influenced areas of Venezuela and Colombia

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Euro-Latin American

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The Characteristics of Latin American Music
(Language)

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Uses Spanish and Portuguese

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The Characteristics of Latin American Music
(Rhythm)

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Usually Repetitive bass rhythms

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The Characteristics of Latin American Music
(Syncopation)

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Weak rhythmic beats are accented

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The Characteristics of Latin American Music
(Call and Response)

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2 or more musical parts that go back and forth in response to each other

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The Characteristics of Latin American Music
(Spanish Decima )

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Decima is a song consists of 10 lines each having eight syllables

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dance form of African origins around 1838 which evolved into an African-Brazilian invention in the working class and slum districts of Rio de Janeiro.

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Samba

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Its lively rhythm, consisting of a meter but containing three steps each that create a feeling of a meter instead, was meant to be executed for singing, dancing, and parading in the carnival.

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Samba

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The most adventurous kind of samba

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“Batucada”

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

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Son

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has evolved from Cuban son and other genres as a popular of urban Carribean Hispanics. Developed in New York in the early 1970’s.

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Salsa

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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.

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salsa

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originated in Colombia and Panama, popular courtship dance. It is popular in The andean Region in southern Cone

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Cumbia

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Evolved in Buenos Aires, Derived from Milonga a lively suggestive Argentinian dance, African origin meaning “African Dance”/from the Spanish word “Taner” meaning to play. Foremost Argentinian and Uruguayan urban popular song and dance.

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Tango

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Derived from mambo of Cuba and its characteristic rhythm.It was imported from Congo by Bassist, Israel “Cachao” Lopez and his brother pianist, Orestes of the Orquesta Radiofonica with El Danzon Mambo

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Cha cha

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recreational dance of Afro-Cuban origin, normally used as a ballroom dance where a solo dancer or couple would be in an embrace though slightly apart.

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Rumba

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popularized in1950s and 1960s as a movement affecting a radical change in the classic Cuban samba.

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Bossa Nova

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The word “ ” means either ‘new trend’ or ‘something charming, integrating melody, harmony, and rhythm into a “swaying” feel, where the vocal production is often nasal.

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bossa

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Foremost figure of the Bossanova is

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Antonio Carlos Jobim

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popular music and dance style that originated in Jamaica in the mid 1960’s.music style that was strongly influenced by traditional mento and calypso

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Reggae

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chieved international fame and acclaim because of his songs :No Woman, No Cry,
One Love, Three Little Birds

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Robert Nesta “Bob” Marley

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developed in US in the 1920s , named after Harry Fox. It is similar to waltz, Gave rise to other dances such as the black bottom, Charleston and shimmy.

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Foxtrot

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“double step” is a theatrical Spanish dance used by the Spaniards in bullfights. The dance is arrogant and dignified with a duple meter, march-like character.

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Paso Doble

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Is the music from 1800 to 1950. It is the most in line with the tastes and interest of the urban middle class, accessible to a wide audience.

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Popular Music

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This would include an extremely wide range of music from vaudeville and minstrel shows to heavy metal.

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Popular Music

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Different Forms Of Popular Music

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Ballad
Standard
Rock and Roll
Alternative Music
Disco

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any light, simple song, having two or more stanzas all sung to the same melody. It is usually sung or performed in romantic or sentimental emotion. It was originally a narrative folk song.

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ballad

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he Term “ ” is often synonymous with any love song like “The of Billy the Kid” by Billy Joel, And Don McLean’s “American Pie”

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ballad

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Also known as Pop Standards or Jazz

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STANDARD

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With the advent of big band swing music in the mid 1930s, pop standards took the form of a more soothing performance style with such legendary crooners as Frank Sinatra, Bing Crosby and Dean Martin, each backed by standard jazz orchestration.

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STANDARD

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(often usually written as rock & roll or rock ‘n’ roll is a genre of popular music that originated and evolved in the United States during the late 1940s and 1950s. It is combination of African – American genres such as blues, jump blues, jazz, and Western swing and country mus

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ROCK and ROLL

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Proponents of this genre include Elvis Presley, Bill Haley and His Comets, The Beattles and the Beach Boys.

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ROCK AND ROLL

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an umbrella term for underground music that emerged in the punk rock movement during the mid- 90s.

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ALTERNATIVE

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These Genre is considered to be rock, because some of influences have been folk music, reggae, electronic, and jazz , among others.

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ALTERNATIVE

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genre of dance- oriented pop music. It may be described as having soaring, reverberated vocals over a steady four-on-the-floor beat,

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DISCO

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Returned dancing to the forefront music. The genre emerged out of an urban subculture in the early 1970s.

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DISCO

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“ ”- the number one best- selling soundtrack of all time, turned disco into a mainstream music genre

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Saturday Night Fever