History of Music in the U.S. and U.K in the 20th century The Jazz Age(1920’s-1930’s) The Golden Age of Jazz began alongside prohibition in the United States. Prohibition, the banning of alcoholic drinks, lead to the development of speakeasies. Speakeasies were illegal establishments in...
Latin American music, musical traditions of Mexico, Central America, and the portions of South America and the Caribbean colonized by the Spanish and the Portuguese. These traditions reflect the distinctive mixtures of Native American, African, and Europ
ese, Latin American, orNative American. Their dreams increasingly demand a realization that has little to do with the romantic dream of San Francisco. But both the dreams and the realities are important, for they are interwoven in the fabric of the city that might be called Paradox-by-the-...
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Most of what is known as Latin music comes from the melding of cultures that took place during the Spanish and Portuguese colonization of the Americas. Musicians of various races and cultures came into contact with instruments they’d never heard before—the European guitar, African conga and tam...
As she makes the rounds with her recent single “Me Gusta” in collaboration withAnuel AAand ahead of her performance Sunday at the Super Bowl halftime show alongside fellow Latin superstarJennifer Lopez,Billboardlooks back at Shakira’s history with reggaeton and trap music below. ...
In the case of “Remember Me,” the Oscar-night performers sing different versions of the song on the film’s soundtrack: LaFourcade and Miguel a bilingual duet, and Garcia Bernal a Spanish version (“Recuerdame”). Brazilian Ary Barroso was the first Latin American songwriter to be nominated...
Next, I brought you into the pop music history, a more in-depth understanding origin. According to historical records, pop music of the well-documented development of land in Europe, North America and Latin America, mainly in the United States, for which it is based. If you divide the ori...
Revolutionary War, this designation referred to South America only. Contemporary use of the term to refer to the United States underlines that country's political and economic dominance in the western hemisphere. Such use of this designation is impolitic from the perspective of Canadians and Latin ...
The African slaves that arrived in the New World brought with them all the traditions and beats of their continent. The African influence in Latin music is so big that this could be the single most important element in Latin music history. That influence, of course, does not touch all the ...