salsa culture project
Date Submitted: 04/07/2003 14:42:11
Salsa Dance and Music Culture Project
Salsa has origins in Cuban music but credit for it's worldwide popularity belongs to the Puerto Ricans of New York! The popularity of Salsa throughout the world, is indirectly a consequence of American economic and social imperialism (MacDonalds, Coca Cola, TV, movies, music etc) but in this case, it is probably a good thing! Musically, Salsa has its roots firmly based in the Afro-Spanish musical traditions of Cuba but
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from Cuba while preserving its home grown musical genres like the seis, bomba, and plena. These and other Puerto Rican influences are evident in the Latin music that has come from New York since the 1940s. During the 1930s and 1940s Cuban music (particularly the Rumba) had, through the movies, gained a following within America and Europe.
Bibliography
1.) http://www.rzuser.uni-heidelberg.de/~jjansen/salsa/origins.html
2.) http://home.t-online.de/home/0525410570-1/orisalsa.htm
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