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During the 1940s, Spanish music was shaped by the aftermath of the Civil War and Francisco Franco's dictatorship. Traditional genres like flamenco and classical music continued to thrive, albeit under strict censorship. Popular music forms such as zarzuela and pasodoble celebrated Spanish identity. The era reflected a complex interplay of ...
In the 1970s and 80s, salsa, blues, rumba and other influences were added to flamenco, along with music from India. Ketama's 1988 debut, Ketama, was especially influential. At the beginning of the 1990s, the Madrid label Nuevos Medios became closely associated with the new flamenco fusion music, which came to be called nuevo flamenco.
In 2018, Latin music became the fifth most popular and successful music genre in the U.S., surpassing country and EDM. [22] Nearly 11 percent of song consumption (including streams and digital sales) and 9.4 percent of album consumption (streams, physical and digital sales) in 2018 was from Latin music.
Since the late 1990s, the United States has seen increasing growth in its population of "Latinos", [20] a term popularized since the 1960s due to confusing the wrong term "Spanish" with the more proper but less popular term "Hispanic". [21] The music industry in the United States began to refer to any kind of music featuring Spanish vocals as ...
Published text of a paper prepared for, and presented on, on 12 March 1994, the conference, Popular Music Music & Identity (Montréal, Qué., 12–13 March 1994), under the auspices of the Canadian Branch of the International Association for the Study of Popular Music. Stevenson, Robert (1952). Music in Mexico. Thomas Y. Crowell Company.
Mariachi music in 1970s, while still popular in the Regional Mexican music field, was named "the last great decade for mariachi music" according to the Los Angeles Times critic Augustin Gurza. [4] The Mexican farmworkers movement since the 1960s led to the popularity corridos which dealt with their impoverished lives. [ 5 ]
The historical significance of Black popular music in American culture is powerful. Even former President Jimmy Carter dedicated a month to African American music appreciation beginning in 1979.
Theme songs from telenovelas also became popular on radio airwaves in Venezuela. [6] Female balada singers that became topped the Latin music charts includes Ana Gabriel, Daniela Romo, Rocío Dúrcal, Gloria Estefan, and Marisela. Notably, several baladas were Spanish-language covers of songs originally performed in Italian.