Influences
This country’s music is one of the main influences in Latin-American music. The target of the US’s Bay of Pigs invasion, this country’s music often uses the clave rhythm and is characterized by the son style.
What is Cuba?
Many Latin and South-American musical genres use this musical technique. Its rhythmic displacement creates a groovy “swing” feel.
What is syncopation?
This instrument classification applies to drums. It is characterized by its use of a thin vibrating surface covering to generate sound.
What is membranophone?
This American musician is accredited with helping distinguish Latin-American jazz with other jazz styles[1]. His works include the “Tin Tin Deo” and the following work:
Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W_XqcH7A8Bc [do not show on-screen]
Who is Dizzy Gillespie?
This practice is tightly integrated with salsa music. This practice, often done with other people, is set to music.
What is dance?
Latin jazz, generally, is regarded as the fusion of Afro-Cuban music with this American jazz style. Emerging in the 1940s, this style was much faster and intense than the Swing Era jazz that preceded it.
What is bebop?
This timeline is often used in Latin-American music. It is performed in the following audio recording:
Link: https://youtu.be/dxVeiPQ1juo?t=7 [do not show on-screen]
What is clave?
This instrument is used in the rhythm section of Latin ensembles. They always appear in pairs, can be performed by either hitting the drum membrane or its shell, and are often paired with cowbells.
What is timbales?
This person was the most famous Latin bandleader, pictured below. His band performed in Hollywood musicals and films.
Who is Xavier Cugat?
This musical style was known as protest music in its home country. A 1964 coup galvanized opposition, and this became associated with this style’s music, which derives from samba.
What is bossa nova?
This city is the commonly-regarded origin of jazz. With the presence of many musical influences, most notably Spanish, musicians blended these styles to create the new genre.
What is New Orleans?
This musical procedure is often used in Afro-Cuban jazz. Used in many musical styles, this procedure relies on a starting party and a following group. In salsa music, the section using this procedure is called montuno.
What is call-and-response?
This instrument is commonly used in samba music. Popular also in American folk music, this instrument is used both for solo and accompaniment roles.
What is guitar?
This American jazz musician stated, “If you can’t manage to put tinges of Spanish into your tunes, you will never be able to get the right seasoning, I call it, for jazz.” He is known for works such as “Dead Man Blues” and “King Porter Stomp."
Who is Jelly Roll Morton?
Carlos Vega defined the term “mesomusic” to describe this type of Latin-American music. Attuned to the different social characteristics of urban areas, it is distributed widely through mass media and contrasts with art music.
What is popular music?
This musical style originated from Brazil in the late 1950’s. Its name means “new flair."
What is bossa nova?
In the samba style, specific emphasis is placed on the eighth note going into this beat, from one to four.
What is beat 2?
A salsa ensemble often contains trumpets, trombones, vocals, percussion, and this melodic instrument. Invented in 1846 by a person of the same last name, it is a transposing instrument, and its shape looks like the tenth letter of the alphabet.
What is a saxophone?
This musician is regarded as the founder of the bossa nova style. With Stan Getz, he composed and recorded the following work:
Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zccQGa7vuiw [do not show on-screen]
Who is Joao Gilberto?
Most Afro-Brazilian songs display influence from this African ethnic group, who was brought over through the slave trade. Distinguished by its linguistic origin, its influences on Brazilian music include pentatonic scales and the hemiola rhythm.
What is Bantu?
This musical style can be divided into two types: rural and urban. It is used in popular music and couple dances, and its folk variant is characterized by umbigada, or the touching of the navels.
What is samba?
Many salsa songs use this Spanish form for organization. This form often uses slang and double entendres, and it is common in the music of Colombia, Mexico, and Argentina.
What is copla?
A rural samba ensemble contains this instrument, pictured below, as part of its accompaniment.
Link: https://kalango.com/media/26/f0/57/1722248047/6643_ShopbildlRI2ChUVnH4nk.jpg?ts=1739357013
This instrument is made of bamboo and creates a rattle sound.
What is reco-reco?
This pianist was the leader of La Perfecta. Their collaborators include the trombonist Barry Rogers, with whom they recorded this recording:
Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WfH5N-F-FJA [hide title]
Eddie Palmieri
This ritual dance was performed in pre-Colombian civilizations such as the Chichimec. Associated with religion, the work contains many fusions with Spanish music and Catholicism.
What is concheros?