Cumbia
The Country of Origin where Cumbia originated.
What is Colombia?
In merengue dancing, partners hold each other in this classic position, like a ballroom embrace.
What is close dancing?
The artist known for the hit song “Despacito.”
Who is Luis Fonsi?
Bachata's country of origin.
What is Dominican Republic?
The primary instrument that plays the clave rhythm, essential to Salsa music.
What is the clave?
This percussion instrument, often played in pairs, drives the rhythmic beat in traditional cumbia music.
What is a drum?
This shiny, cylindrical instrument is scraped with a metal stick to create merengue’s signature rhythmic sound.
What is the guira?
A common rhythm pattern used in Reggaeton music.
What is the Dembow Rhythm?
In 2019, this company recognized Bachata as an Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity.
What is UNESCO?
This influential artist known as the “Queen of Salsa” is famous for songs like “La Rebelion.
Who is Celia Cruz?
This traditional cumbia dance move involved women swaying their skirts in a circular motion to charm their partners.
What is the skirt dance?
The basic step of merengue involves moving side to side in this number of counts, keeping it simple yet snappy.
What is 2?
The Reggaeton artist who has collaborated with J Balvin and is known for the song “La Bicicleta.”
Who is Carlos Vives?
What is the requinto (lead guitar), segunda (rhythm guitar), bass guitar, bongos, and güira (metal guiro)?
The influential Salsa band formed in the 1960s, famous for the album “El Hombre y Su Música."
Who is Fania All-Stars?
This slowed-down, pitch-shifted cumbia style, popularized in Monterrey, Mexico, is known as cumbia rebajada.
What is slowed-cumbia?
This legendary merengue artist, known for hits like “Ojala que Llueva Cafe,” helped globalize the genre in the 1990s.
Who is Juan Luis Guerra?
The year Reggaeton was commercially popularized in the global music scene.
What is 2004?
Over time, Bachata has evolved, with Western dancers introducing new patterns and styles, name 1 out 3.
What is Bachatango, Bachata Fusion, and Sensual Bachata?
The key elements that distinguish Salsa from other Latin dance styles (name 1 out 2).
What are improvisation and syncopation?
This 17th-century Colombian cultural practice, involving music and dance around a fire, influenced the early development of of cumbia.
What is a cumbiamba?
This five-note rhythmic pattern, often heard in merengue, gives the music its distinctive Caribbean swing.
What is the cinquillo?
The term for the blend of Reggaeton with Latin trap music.
What is “trapeton”?
What is "música de amargue" (music of bitterness)?
The historical significance of Salsa includes its connection to this cultural movement in New York City.
What is the Nuyorican movement?