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1.1.2 20-21st century music (Salsa, Son Montuno, Bolero, etc.) 1.2 South America. ... lamellophone and idiophone instruments used in Latin music. Instruments
In the 1960s, the conga became a prominent instrument in Haitian popular music styles such as konpa, yeye and mini-djaz. [18] Conjuntos and orchestras playing Colombian dance music have incorporated cumbia rhythms, traditionally played on tambores known as alegre and llamador, to the conga drums. The standard Colombian cumbia rhythm is simple ...
The Athenaeum Music & Arts Library is a non-profit membership library in La Jolla, a community in San Diego, California. In 1884, a group of La Jolla women established the La Jolla Reading Club. [1] By 1898, a reading room was constructed on the corner of Girard Avenue and Wall Street. It was incorporated as the Library Association of La Jolla ...
Zumba dancing at Roanoke College in the United States, 2012. Zumba is a fitness program that involves cardio and Latin-inspired dance. It was founded by Colombian dancer and choreographer Beto Pérez in 2001. [1] It currently has 200,000 locations, with 15 million people taking classes weekly, and is located in 180 countries.
Rueda dancing requires a minimum of two couples, but could be as large as the maximum number of couples who can create a circle in the dance venue. (If necessary, multiple concentric circles can even be formed.) Since the 1990s, the music most commonly used for Rueda de Casino is either Salsa music or a unique variation of Salsa known as "Timba."
The bongo entered Cuban popular music as a key instrument of early son ensembles, quickly becoming—due to the increasing popularity of the son—"the first instrument with an undeniable African past to be accepted in Cuban “society” circles". [3] This is attested, for example, in poems by Nicolás Guillén. [3]
The clave pattern is also found in the African diaspora music of Haitian Vodou drumming, Afro-Brazilian music, African-American music, Louisiana Voodoo drumming, and Afro-Uruguayan music . The clave pattern (or hambone, as it is known in the United States) is used in North American popular music as a rhythmic motif or simply a form of rhythmic ...
Salsa music typically ranges from 160 bpm (beats per minute) and 220 bpm, which is suitable for salsa dancing. The key instrument that provides the core groove of a salsa song is the clave. It is often played with two wooden sticks (called clave ) that are hit together.