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  2. Bachata (music) - Wikipedia

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    The original term used to name the genre was amargue ("bitterness", "bitter music"), until the mood-neutral term bachata became popular. Bachata originates from the pan-Latin American style called bolero and son. The genre mixed these and the troubadour singing tradition common in Latin America (and later, from the mid-1980s, merengue).

  3. Bachata (music) - en.wikipedia.org

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    Bachata originates from bolero and son (and later, from the mid-1980s, merengue). The original term used to name the genre was amargue ("bitterness", "bitter music"), until the mood-neutral term bachata became popular. The form of dance, bachata, also developed with the music. [2] Bachata arose in the poor and working class areas of the country.

  4. Bachatón - Wikipedia

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    Bachatón (also known as bachateo) is a fusion genre of reggaeton from Panama and Puerto Rico [1] [2] [3] as well as bachata from the Dominican Republic. Bachaton combines bachata melodies and reggaeton style beats, lyrics, rapping, and disc jockeying. The word "bachatón" is a portmanteau of "bachata" and "reggaeton". "Bachatón" was coined ...

  5. Bachata: A Social History of a Dominican Popular Music

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    "Music and Dictatorship," the second chapter, described the genre under the rule of Rafael Trujillo. [2] The dictator preferred merengue over bachata and pushed the former to be more prominent. [3] The conclusion gives a comparison between the subject to other popular music in other countries. [4]

  6. Bachata (dance) - Wikipedia

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    From the late 1990s, dancers in the Western world started creating novel dance forms inspired by bachata music. The most well-known example of this is the made-up basic step commonly referred to as the "side-to-side step", which is sometimes accompanied by an exaggerated "pop” of the hips during the tap.

  7. Latin dance - Wikipedia

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    For example, the Mambo which was created in the 1940s emerged through the combination of American swing and Cuban Son music. [13] Another example is the Romania and Egyptian cultural dance of belly dancing , which has traveled its way to Spain and gained its influence in the repertoire of the Latin dance known as flamenco due to the Moorish ...

  8. Imitadora - Wikipedia

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    [2] Shirley Gomez of Latin Times called the song "a bachata in Santos' unique style, a fusion of rhythms that makes the singer-songwriter's signature bachata sound." [ 3 ] Isabelia Herrera de Remezcla wrote that the song is "a strong comeback for Romeo, a more potent follow-up to the jazzy bachata serenade 'Héroe Favorito'" [ 4 ]

  9. Latin music - Wikipedia

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    Since then, the music industry classifies all music sung in Spanish or Portuguese as Latin music, including musics from Spain and Portugal. [6] Following protests from Latinos in New York, a category for Latin music was created by National Recording Academy (NARAS) for the Grammy Awards titled Best Latin Recording in 1975. [14]