Europe. Examples include rhumba, Afro-Cuban jazz, salsa, soukous, many West African re-adaptations of Afro-Cuban music (Orchestra Baobab, Africando), Spanish...
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demographic composition of the island. A study by the Institute for Cuban and Cuban-American Studies at the University of Miami estimated the proportion...
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progression, commonly used in Cuban music, is heard in pop music all across the African continent, thanks to the influence of Cuban music. Those chords move in...
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Bolero (redirect from Cuban bolero)
Vietnamese. In Cuba, the bolero was perhaps the first great Cuban musical and vocal synthesis to win universal recognition. In 2 4 time, this dance music spread...
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Afro-Cuban jazz is the earliest form of Latin jazz. It mixes Afro-Cuban clave-based rhythms with jazz harmonies and techniques of improvisation. Afro-Cuban...
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Son cubano (redirect from Cuban Son)
popular. After the Cuban Revolution separated Cuba from the U.S., son, mambo and rumba, along with other forms of Afro-Cuban music contributed to the...
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Cuban music. Cuban musicologist Mayra Martínez wrote that "the term salsa obscured the Cuban base, the music's history or part of its history in Cuba...
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Cuban folk music includes a variety of traditional folk music of Cuba, and has been influenced by the Spanish and the African culture as well as the remaining...
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Brazil and Jamaica, Cuban music represents a profound African musical heritage. Clearly, the origin of African groups in Cuba is due to the island's...
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of media by the Cuban authorities. However, some Cuban writers continue living and writing in Cuba, including Nancy Morejón. Cuban music is very rich and...
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Spanish. The larger Cuban diaspora includes individuals that trace ancestry to Cuba and self-identify as Cuban but are not necessarily Cuban by citizenship...
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Rumba is a secular genre of Cuban music involving dance, percussion, and song. It originated in the northern regions of Cuba, mainly in urban Havana and...
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Clave (rhythm) (redirect from Tresillo (music))
claves Afro-Cuban musical instrument which consists of a pair of hardwood sticks. The clave pattern holds the rhythm together in Afro-Cuban music. The two...
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Hanine Y Son Cubano (category 1999 establishments in Cuba)
a music group formed in 1999 that merges Cuban music and Arabic music. It was in the early 1990s, when he lived in Havana, that Greek-Lebanese music novelty-wiz...
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Mambo is a genre of Cuban dance music pioneered by the charanga Arcaño y sus Maravillas in the late 1930s and later popularized in the big band style...
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Rhythm and blues (redirect from Rhythm-and-Blues Music)
American music began incorporating Afro-Cuban rhythmic motifs in the 1800s with the popularity of the Cuban contradanza (known outside of Cuba as the habanera)...
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Cha-cha-cha (dance) (redirect from Cha-cha-chá (Cuban dance))
(also called cha-cha), is a dance of Cuban origin. It is danced to the music of the same name introduced by the Cuban composer and violinist Enrique Jorrin...
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Rumba (category Latin music genres)
emulate the sound of Cuban son (incorrectly referred to as "rumba" in Africa, despite being unrelated to Cuban rumba), their music became known as Congolese...
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and 1950s, the term tropical music was created to cover all music from the hispanophone Caribbean excluding Cuban music, which had its own category and...
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became alive with Cuban music and salsa dancing. It all started when waves of Cuban immigrants made Miami their new home after the Cuban Revolution. They...
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Cuban Pete is a 1946 American musical comedy film was directed by Jean Yarbrough and starred the Cuban-born actor and musician Desi Arnaz. It was produced...
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diaspora, especially Brazil. Call and response is extensively used in Cuban music, where it is known as coro-pregón. It derives from African musical elements...
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known by his stage name Cuban Link, is a Cuban American rapper and original member of Terror Squad. Delgado was born in Havana, Cuba, in 1974. He and his...
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Jam session (redirect from Jam (music))
ISBN 978-0-393-06861-0. Gerard, Charley (2001). Music from Cuba: Mongo Santamaria, Chocolate Armenteros, and Cuban Musicians in the United States. Westport,...
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Buena Vista Social Club (category 1996 establishments in Cuba)
sparked a revival of interest in traditional Cuban music and Latin American music in general. Some of the Cuban performers later released well-received solo...
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Cuban youth put their own energy and style into the music, Cuban hip-hop eventually became more acceptable. "The Cuban government now sees rap music –...
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up Cuban or cuban in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Cuban may refer to: Something of, from, or related to Cuba, a country in the Caribbean Cubans, people...
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Tresillo (rhythm) (category Music of Cuba)
rhythmic basis of many African and Afro-Cuban drum rhythms, as well as the ostinato bass tumbao in Cuban son-based musics, such as son montuno, mambo, salsa...
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Aaliyah Keef or Taylor Williams, better known as Cuban Doll, Cuban Da Savage or simply Cuban, is an American rapper and social media influencer. Keef...
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The Cuban bolero dance originated in Santiago de Cuba in the last quarter of the 19th century; it does not owe its origin to the Spanish music and song...
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