The Music of Latin America and Its Rhythm Flashcards
A music and dance ceremony done in Cuba, Dominican Republic, and Puerto Rico.
Areito
Idiophone scraper
Guiro
Idiophone slit drum
Mayohuacan
Latin American music encompasses a wide variety of styles due to its ___________________.
Syncretic nature
Combination of different beliefs or practices.
Syncretic nature
Cumbia is known to have originated from _______________.
Columbia
This dance has a “windup” motion as its basic character and is performed in a circular motion.
Cumbia dance
The sleepy leg is a ________ step.
Cumbia
Mimics the walking motion of enslaved people with a ball chain attached to one leg.
The sleepy leg
The sleepy leg is originally created by ___________________.
Alberto Perez
Tango originated from _____________________.
Argentina
An interpretative, sensitive, and improvisational social dances that allows its dancers to connect themselves to the music, their partners, and their surroundings.
Tango
2 basic types of tango
- Salon
- Milonguero
It is a type of Tango that is done in big places as its movements would require.
Salon tango
It is a type of Tango that is an intimately danced version usually performed in small places such as cafes and crowded dance floors.
Milonguero Tango
Cha-cha is a ballroom style dance that originated from _________.
Cuba
Cha-cha’s music was originally made by ________________.
Enrique Jorrin
It is characterized by a strong downbeat with lesser syncopation, which became popular with dancers during that time.
Cha-cha
It began in the second half of the 19th century.
Rumba
It is said to have originated as a sex pantomime; exaggerated and aggressive hip and body movements of the male dancer became integrated into it.
Rumba
Bossa nova means “_______________.”
New beat
They recorded Chega de Saudade.
Antonio Carlos Jobim, Vinicius de Moraes, and Joao Gilberto
It is characterized by rhythm and melodies from Brazil and improvisation that expresses a refreshingly light and relaxing music with that unique Latin American rhythmic feel.
Boosa Nova
It originated from Jamaica.
Reggae
Reggae is based on an earlier Jamaican music form, __________.
The ska
It is widely known that reggae is the _________________________.
voice of the oppressed
It expresses the sound of ghetto life and was the music of the gangster culture.
Reggae
He achieved international fame with his reggae music, which he combined with the ska music style.
Bob Marley
It is a dance that originated from New York in the United States.
Foxtrot
Foxtrot was introduced by ______________.
Harry Fox
He was doing trotting steps set to ragtime music, and the audience from then on referred to his performance as “Fox’s trot.”
Harry Fox
Paso Doble is a Spanish term that means “__________________.”
double step
A smooth dance with long walking movements.
Foxtrot
It is a genre of light Spanish music set to binary rhythm and is believed to be set to 16th century Spanish dances.
Paso Doble
