Here’s how seven Latin major music genres emerged: Here's Why Puerto Rico Is Part of the U.S. - Sort Of SALSA WHERE IT’S FROM: Cuba, Puerto Rico, New York WHAT DEFINES THE SOUND: A distinct beat called the clave. A three-drum section (bongos, congas and timbales) executes the ...
These results largely confirm Bourdieu's distinction theory for this specific 'popular' genre, and suggest that cultural 'omnivorousness' can coincide with status-related distinctions and exclusivity on the level of within-genre distinctions. The findings also show that respondents use salsa music as ...
Music is a vital part of every Filipinos' lives. Firstly, Philippine folks considered it to be one of the most popular and ancient modes of human expressions. It features largely in all histories and all cultures and indeed has bee...
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Surprisingly little information exists about the origins of Inca Records, which started in 1965 through the efforts of Jorge Valdés, a Cuban transplant living in Puerto Rico. While his name might not be well known in the salsa pantheon, the acts his label convened became some of the most fa...
We turned to explore the crazy wonderland, but he was having none of that and began a meandering monologue. Being Wisconsin nice (despite his skepticism as to our origins), we politely listened and I tried to glean his story. He wasn’t too forthcoming, but we learned that Neil was ...
Blades will be forever remembered as the singer/songwriter who brought to Afro-Caribbean music the spirit of social justice and political awakening. After moving to New York in the early ‘70s, he got a job in the mailroom ofFania Records— the Motown of salsa — and convinced many of the...
Salsa's origins are Cuban, but many believe that Puerto Ricans in the U. S. developed the style of sals a that we know today.Between 1040 and 1969, more than 800,000 Puerto Ricans moved to the mainland U. S., especially to New York City and Miami. They brought with them their ...
The album’s artwork features an image of Auguste Rodin’s sculpture of Orpheus and Eurydice A poster for Arcade Fire’s “not-so-secret” secret show as The Reflektors at Salsatheque in Montreal Influenced by Haitian rara music, the filmBlack Orpheus(Marcel Camus,1959) andSøren Kierkegaard...
Orchestra Origins A group of individual musicians playing instruments together is not something that originated with orchestras. People have been playing music for centuries before orchestras came around. During the Renaissance, before the term orchestra was common, a group of instrumentalists was...