Genres of Latin American music
In the 1970s, Puerto Rican and other performers of this trombone-heavy genre began writing songs speaking to the plights of their own communities.
What is salsa?
What is Blackface minstrelsy?
Intertribal pow-wows often feature dance competitions accompanied by this type of musical group, arranged in a circle around one large instrument.
What is a drum?
This type of blues often featured women singers, and was accompanied by a piano-led band.
What is classic blues?
Music played a big role in the struggle for majority rule in Zimbabwe, so much so that it shares this name with that struggle.
What is chimurenga?
This genre of Mexican music often features trumpets and violins.
What is mariachi?
In the 1970s, this social movement hoped to bring justice and autonomy to Native American communities, partially through song.
What is the Red Power movement?
This is the main percussion instrument used in a raga performance.
What is the tabla?
In some African-American congregations, this technique will be used to transmit a hymn's lyrics to the congregants who don't have hymnals.
What is lining out?
What is a talking drum (or lunga)?
This Cuban genre that emerged in the early 20th century reflects a combination of African, European and Indigenous influences through its instruments.
What is Cuban son?
This Puerto Rican genre whose songs often make many local references was one of the antecedents of salsa.
What is plena?
Sometimes called "The Voice of Egypt," this singer allegedly never sang the same line of music the same way twice, excelling at varied repetition.
Who is Umm Kulthum?
He famously recorded perhaps the first version of "Crossroads Blues," a recording that would go on to influence countless rock musicians.
Who is Robert Johnson?
Balinese gamelans often play in a fast style that shows off their virtuosity, whereas gamelans from this island tend to play in a more stately and restrained style.
What is Java?
What is Nueva Canción?
Singers in the Shop region of Bulgaria often sing in close harmonies often described as this by outsiders, although the negative connotation of that word doesn't apply in this case.
What is dissonant?
Music in this film industry from India always picks up and incorporates global trends of the time.
What is Bollywood?
What are the 12-bar blues?
Philip Koutev often wrote obrabotki for women's choirs in the 1950s, reflecting the political ideology of this country at that time.
What is Bulgaria?
This genre from Veracruz, Mexico often features a harp, in addition to other strummed instruments.
What is son jarocho?
The recitation of this book, the holy book of the religion of Islam, is often done melodically, although it isn't considered to be music.
What is the Qur'an?
This lute-type instrument from Egypt is played with a long plectrum, rather than your fingertips.
What is the 'ud?
Who is Sister Rosetta Tharpe?
This type of music that originated in around Shanghai, China is often played with a heterophonic texture.
What is silk and bamboo music?