Europe. Examples include rhumba, Afro-Cuban jazz, salsa, soukous, many West African re-adaptations of Afro-Cuban music (Orchestra Baobab, Africando), Spanish...

demographic composition of the island. A study by the Institute for Cuban and Cuban-American Studies at the University of Miami estimated the proportion...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

Spanish. The larger Cuban diaspora includes individuals that trace ancestry to Cuba and self-identify as Cuban but are not necessarily Cuban by citizenship...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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)...

(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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

ISBN 978-0-393-06861-0. Gerard, Charley (2001). Music from Cuba: Mongo Santamaria, Chocolate Armenteros, and Cuban Musicians in the United States. Westport,...

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...

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 –...

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...

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...

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...

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...