Salsa Music Dancing

Salsa Music Dancing

This paper will focus on presenting facts related to Salsa music. Salsa is a musical genre popular mainly in Latin America and among the Latin American natives. Salsa incorporates many styles and variations, in the broad sense of the term, which can be used for almost any music of Cuban origin (for example, the cha-cha-cha, bolero, and mambo). In a narrower sense, the term refers to a style developed in the 1960s and '70s by Cuban and Puerto Rican immigrants in New York City and its surroundings, as well as its offshoots, such as salsa romance 1980s. This style of music is distributed not only in Latin America but also around the world. Closest to salsa styles are Cuban mambo and sleep of the early 20th century, and Latin jazz. Generally, the term "Latin American jazz" and "salsa" are often used interchangeably; many musicians refer to both areas, especially with regard to the musicians before 1970.

The more popular kind of music that is followed in Ottawa include, Rock, Jazz and the alternative genre of music, but during the 'Bluefestival' 2012, a step was taken towards the promotion of the cultural music, which included the Latin American music and the Salsa. Stylistically, the salsa is mainly related to (African) Cuban tradition, although it contains a Puerto Rican, Colombian and other Latin American influences, including pop, jazz, rock, R'n'B. Modern salsa is mainly focused on dancing, and strongly associated with eponymous dance performed to it. The sauce is the partner dance danced to the tune eponymous musical genre, and has movement and codified rules. There are different schools, different styles and techniques, but the main ones are Cuban salsa and Puerto Rican salsa, which in turn can be divided into other sub-categories (such as NY Style, otherwise known as Mambo On2).

Musical styles of North America, the Europe and the Caribbean have exchanged information and have influenced each other for centuries. It is however in the last century that we find the most notable reciprocal influences, especially between American jazz and Cuban music. There are several factors that led to these reciprocal influences, such as, the incorporation of religious traditions of Africa in Cuban music and the adaptation of the style of bands in the European military instrumentation popular. The harmonic development and innovations introduced by the European Impressionists, mixed with African harmonies (such as ranges pentatonic and "blue").

In the early 1920s, styles such as ragtime two-step, the foxtrot, the Charleston and Tap were popular in Cuban dance halls. Interpreted orchestras of traditional Cuban music, but they also used the instrumentation of orchestras jazz and new harmonies " jazz "were introduced in this popular music. Foreign artists adapted the Cubans and Cuban rhythms began to market their music for tourists and foreign markets.

The invention of the radio in the 1920s, as well as the development of the recording industry records and talkies would develop a taste for auditors and allow the Cuban music known worldwide ...