Instruments
What is the trumpet?
This is the place where both salsa and mambo became popular.
The biggest country in South America that is home to Capoeira and Samba
What is Brazil?
Most of the instruments in Mariachi bands are part of this instrument family.
What is the string family?
What is the guitar?
This is an easier form of the mambo that developed in the 1950s in Cuba.
What is the cha cha cha?
Mariachi music originated in this North American country
What is Mexico?
When accompanying Capoeira, the person who plays this instrument is often the leader in call and response chants.
What is the berimbau?
This small percussion instrument is common in salsa, mambo, and cha cha cha music and usually plays the 3-2 rhythm.
What is the clave?
Slaves in Brazil pretended that they were dancing when doing Capoeira. This is what they were really doing.
What is learning self-defense?
Merengue originated in this Central American country that is located next to Haiti
What is the Dominican Republic?
This instrument family is the most important in salsa music because it plays the 3-2 clave pattern.
What is the percussion family?
This instrument is a Brazilian musical bow made of wood that is used primarily to accompany Capoeira.
What is the berimbau?
This type of dance that originated in Argentina and Uruguay started out as a lower class dance and eventually became popular among the upper class as well.
What is Tango?
Tango originated in these two South American countries
What are Argentina & Uruguay?
This is the name of the Brazilian tambourine commonly used in samba bands.
What is the pandeiro?
The caixa is used in Brazilian samba and is very similar to a snare drum. Describe the main difference between the caixa and the snare drum.
The caixa has wires on top but the snare drum has wires on bottom.
This simple dance from the Dominican Republic is a "dance of the people" because it was not allowed in upper class clubs.
What is Merengue?
What are salsa, mambo, and cha cha cha?
The Uruguayan government tried to ban this instrument because they feared that by being able to express their culture, slaves would be inspired to organize and fight back.
Drums (Tambors used in Candombe)