Blacks and mulattos have generated these stormy antiphons that emerged from the cultural encounter between Europeans and African slaves. It’s part of an important geographical feedback loop ranging from Asia and Oceania to Africa (mother of almost all rhythms), and including blues and jazz (from the US) and folk music, and the perfect influx of the melodic, rhythmic and harmonic from Brazil. The myriad musical genres in Cuba draw from the conflation of musical influences from Spain, France, England, Italy, the United States, Austria, China, and Africa, leading to all sorts of musical styles: danza, habanera, danzón, danzonete, tumba francesa (from Guantánamo), chachachá, mambo, bolero, son, canción trovadoresca, Afro-Cuban chants, drum beats, bembé, guaguancó, columbia, yambú, tahona, changüí, guajira, criolla, romanza, parranda espirituana, zapateo, conga, mozambique, pilón, pacá, simalé, dengue, guaracha, criolla, pregón, sucu-sucu, jazz jam sessions, boleros, feeling, and timba habanera.Īlong with the United States and Brazil, the largest island in the Caribbean is a cardinal vertex that completes the triangle of the world’s great popular music forces. ![]() ![]() ![]() Cuba’s greatest contribution to world culture is its music.
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