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According to the Cuban popular music "Generic complex theory", Cuban folk music is classified as follows: Punto cubano Complex, with its variations Punto libre y Punto fijo. Rumba Complex, with its components Yambú, Guaguancó, Columbia, Conga and Comparsa. Danzón Complex, with its variants Contradanza, Danzón, Danzonete, Mambo and Cha-cha-chá.
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Albita was born in Havana.Her parents, Martín Rodríguez and Minerva Herrera were well-known Cuban folk music singers (who performed as Martín y Minerva or better known as Mima y Pipo), [1] which ensured Albita's exposure to the world of Cuban country music from her early years.
Nueva Trova ([ˈnweβa ˈtɾoβa], "new trova") is a movement in Cuban music that emerged around 1967-1968 after the Cuban Revolution of 1959, and the consequent political and social changes. Nueva Trova has its roots in the traditional trova , but differs from it because its content is, in the widest sense, political.
Silvio Rodríguez Domínguez (born 29 November 1946) is a Cuban musician, and leader of the Nueva Trova movement.. He is widely considered as Cuba's best folk singer and arguably one of Latin America's greatest singer-songwriters. [1]
One album peaked at number one in the first year of publication: Mi Tierra, by Cuban singer-songwriter Gloria Estefan. The album also peaked at number 27 on the Billboard 200, [3] and was certified platinum by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA). [4] It won the Best Traditional Tropical Album award at the Grammy Awards of 1994. [5]
Cuban folk music (1 C, 2 P) G. Guajira (music) (2 C, 2 P) ... Pages in category "Cuban styles of music" The following 36 pages are in this category, out of 36 total.
[8] p181 Aside from rural music and Afro-Cuban folk music, the most popular kind of urban Creole dance music in the 19th century was the contradanza, which commenced as a local form of the English country dance and the derivative French contredanse and Spanish contradanza. While many contradanzas were written for dance, from the mid-century ...