Latin American music

Latin American music, sometimes simply called Latin music, includes the music of many countries and comes in many varieties, from the simple, rural conjunto music of northern Mexico to the sophisticated habanera of Cuba, from the symphonies of Heitor Villa-Lobos to the simple and moving Andean flute. Music has played an important part in Latin America's turbulent recent history, for example the nueva cancion movement. Latin music is very diverse, with the only truly unifying thread being the use of the Spanish language or, in Brazil, its close cousin the Portuguese language {{ref|language}}.

Popular music

Argentina

Main articles: Music of Argentina, Tango music, Milonga, Chacarera, Chamamé, Cuarteto

Related Topics:
Music of Argentina - Tango music - Milonga - Chacarera - Chamamé - Cuarteto

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The tango was perhaps the first of many Latin dance crazes to become popular all around the world. The Gaucho's gave Argentina the Chacarera , Cueca, and Zamba; the Guaraní Chamamé, and African slaves Candombe and Murga. More modern rhythms include Argentina's Merengue from Córdoba: El Cuarteto, and the popular Argentine Cumbia.

Related Topics:
Gaucho - Guaraní - Candombe - Murga - Merengue - Cumbia

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Chile

Main articles: Andean music

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The Chilean music of the Andes reflects the spirit of the indigenous people of the Altiplano. It is also where the nueva cancion originated. Cueca is the national dance and it has mantained its popularity on the country along the years.

Related Topics:
Altiplano - Nueva cancion - Cueca

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Brazil

Main articles: Bossa nova, Música Popular Brasileira, samba

Related Topics:
Bossa nova - Música Popular Brasileira - Samba

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Brazil is a large and diverse country with a long history of popular musical development, ranging from the early 20th century innovation of samba to the modern Música Popular Brasileira. Bossa nova is internationally well-known.

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Cuba

Main articles: Canto nuevo, rumba, nueva trova, habanera, mambo, chachacha

Related Topics:
Canto nuevo - Rumba - Nueva trova - Habanera - Mambo - Chachacha

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Cuba has produced many of the world's most famous styles of music and a number of renowned musicians in a variety of fields.

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Colombia

Main article: Cumbia

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Cumbia is originally a Colombian style of popular music, though it is now also found in other countries, especially Mexico.

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Dominican Republic

Main article: Merengue

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Merengue has been popular in the Dominican Republic for many decades, and is a kind of national symbol.

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Mexico

Main article: Mariachi

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Mariachi is a kind of popular Mexican music.

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Puerto Rico

Main articles: Bomba, plena, reggaeton

Related Topics:
Bomba - Plena - Reggaeton

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Bomba and plena have been popular in Puerto Rico for a long time, while reggaeton is a relatively recent invention.

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Venezuela

Main article: Llanera

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Llanera is Venezuelan popular music.

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Nueva cancion

Main article: Nueva cancion

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Nueva cancion is a kind of folky music found throughout the Andean countries, associated especially with Bolivia and Chile.

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Salsa

Main article: Salsa music

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Salsa is an amalgamation of Latin musical styles, especially Cuban and Puerto Rican, created in the pan-Latin melting pot of New York City in the early 1970s.

Related Topics:
Melting pot - 1970s

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Tejano music

Main article: Tex-Mex and Tejano

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The Tejano people live in southern Texas in the United States. They are ethnically Mexican, and have their own form of both folk and popular music which is different from both Mexican and American music.

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Imported styles

Imported styles of popular music with a distinctively Latin style include Latin jazz, Argentinean rock and Chilean rock, and Cuban and Mexican hip hop, all based of styles from the United States (jazz, rock and roll and hip hop). Music from non-Latin parts of the Caribbean are also popular, especially Jamaican reggae and dub, and Trinidadian calypso music.

Related Topics:
Latin jazz - Argentinean rock - Chilean rock - Cuban - Mexican hip hop - Jazz - Rock and roll - Hip hop - Jamaica - Reggae - Dub - Trinidadian - Calypso music

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