Cumbia serves as a unifier of Mexican people, especially families, and serves as a sociocultural outlet for celebration and upholds cultural traditions. A main theme of Mexican culture is togetherness of the family, and many celebrations create a community and place for family involvement. Celebrating together creates and maintains bonds and is an outlet for expression sharing commonalities such as cultural thoughts and ideas. Solidifying a connection in the community with people that listen to cumbia strengthens the culture and forms unity. Mexican cumbia is a significant aspect of Mexican identity and produces a gateway environment for embracing heritage and reflects a highly family and community oriented culture. Cumbia originated in the coastal region of Colombia in the early 1800’s. There were three predominant cultures in Colombia at that time: the indigenous peoples, the Spaniards, and the African slaves. The cumbia began with the essential instrumentation of the tambor drums and the gaita flutes, which derive from both indigenous and Congo-based African roots. The genre was entertainment for the slaves, beginning as a courtship dance. It later became an outlet for national resistance and protest as Colombia was contesting for its independence. The music was able to diffuse throughout the nation, spreading from the coast, primarily for the reason that many African populations were scattered in various regions. Barranquilla, a port city in Colombia, was the core of where the music became established and played for the masses, and where instruments such as horns and bass began to be incorporated into cumbia, giving it a more Latin feel. As cumbia evolved and spread to Mexico around the 1930’s, it changed from the influence o... ... middle of paper ... ...n the Twentieth Century. College Station, TX: Texas A&M Univ., 2002. Print. Morales, Ed. The Latin Beat: The Rhythms and Roots of Latin Music from Bossa Nova to Salsa and Beyond. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Da Capo, 2003. Print. Peña, Manuel H. "Ritual Structure in a Chicano Dance." University of Texas Press: Latin American Music Review Spring- Summer 1980 1.1 (1980): 47-73. Print. Ragland, Cathy. "Mexican Deejays and the Transnational Space of Youth Dances in New York and New Jersey." University of Illinois Press: Ethnomusicology. Autumn 2003 47.3 (2003): 338-53. Print. Ragland, Cathy. Música Norteña: Mexican Migrants Creating a Nation between Nations. Philadelphia, PA: Temple UP, 2009. Print. Wisner, Heather. “With a Hop, A Kick, And A Turn, Cumbia Enters the Global Stage.” Dance Magazine 80.9 (2006): 64-68. Humanities Abstracts (H.W. Wilson). Web. 7 Dec. 2011
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...ating with each other and these are the same values that are being passed on to this generation. The dancers in South-central Los Angeles, uses this form of art to express their feelings and it a form of communicating just like their ancestors did back in there days. At the same time, it allows them to have a much deeper connection with their roots.
A product of the corridos and the norteño styles of Mexico, Narcocorridos are a recent style of music in Latin America. The Spanish word corrido means to be “moved” and the ballad style of Narcocorridos reflects the traditional corrido style, while also using the norteño instruments and rhythm. The Polka beat and use of string instruments incorporates the ideology of mestizaje. The corrido’s roots lie in the ...
Music can be defined as a collection of sounds and silence, however, as we learned in class, music style and verity can differ greatly between regions of the world. In this paper, we will summarize each studied region by listing a few important characteristics and themes of each. We will first look into the regional themes and styles of China, followed by those from Japan and Bali, then move on to the Pacific Islands, and finally end with Pacific Latin America. We will also compare and contrast each area along the way, and will list some common similarities and differences between them.
Crouch, Ned. Mexicans & Americans : Cracking The Cultural Code. NB Publishing, Inc., 2004. eBook Collection (EBSCOhost). Web. 21 Nov. 2011.
In the Our Latin Thing/Nuestra Cosa film, Director Leon Gast highlights the lives of the Fania All-Stars on and off stage, in addition to the salsa culture in New York City. As Marisol Berrios-Miranda states in her article, “Salsa Music as Expressive Liberation,” “Our Latin Thing was the first documentary that portrayed salsa as an expression of Latin American urban social identity” (Berrios-Miranda, 160). The film illustrates that salsa culture is more than just musicians playing at nightclubs for an audience, dancing to the music. It is kids playing on makeshift drums, couples dancing in the streets, men having their roosters participate in cockfights, men playing dominos, people singing and playing music while smoking cigarettes, and women and children getting Coke snow cones.
Since its humble beginnings, salsa has been quickly becoming a global sensation. At the beginning, Salsa was not the most popular genre of music because there were many other dominant genres in Latin America that shadowed salsa. As time progressed and multiple talented artists refined the music, it began gaining recognition by the world. The purpose of this paper is to analyze the evolution of salsa from its beginning.
Music is a form of communication, letting others knows what is going on in the country, political, social or economic and any other problems the people of the Caribbean faced. With so many different ethnic backgrounds in the Caribbean, they are people with Asians, Indians, and Africans descents. This created a language and culture barrier but each ethnic background shared a common link music. Music bridged the gap between the different ethnicities Music is part of everyone’s culture especially here in the Caribbean. Our culture is recognized worldwide for its music. The Caribbean has different genres of music such as calypso, reggae, dance hall, zouk and many others. Our music has roots in both African and European cultures. The drum rhythm comes from the African in...
Bachata is a form of music and danceable rhythm that originated in the countrysides of the Dominican Republic. It is now known for it’s catchy danceable rhythm making it a music genre that is known internationally. It all started may 31st 1962. A group of musicians whose lead singer was Jose Manuel Calderon recorded the first “Bachata album” during the decades of the 1940s and 1950s DR was influenced by Merengue,
Natividad Cano had a passion for mariachi music that drove his desire to change the stereotypical social relations associated with mariachi music. However, many traditionalists accused Cano for breaking away from traditional elements and commercializing mariachi music as a meaningless choreographed form that would appeal to western audiences (Shay, 2006, p. 77). I see the positive results of Cano’s strive to take mariachi music out of the stereotypical local cantinas and onto the stages of national concert halls, where the artistic value of mariachi music can be truly appreciated by a widespread audience.
Mauro Refosco is a percussionist musician born on October 16, 1966 in Santa Catarina, Brazil. Being of italian descent, he developed a unique sensitivity for Italian rhythms in southern music which ultimately lead to him taking interest in the brazilian tambourine, the pandeiro, and the haunting berimbao. As his name became more prominent amongst percussionists, so did his instruments. In fact, according to Google’s statistics, the prominence of the word, pandeiro, has grown about 12 times as popular since the 1980’s, and for the berimbao, it has almost doubled. Ergo, it is reasonable to credit him for the popularization of the prominence of these instruments in today’s society. Furthermore, Refosco would form a band, the Hot Chili Peppers.
This is a critical acclaim encyclopedic production in which reflects on as well as celebrates the history of the roots of rhythm the popular sounds we call Latin music, to the tribal celebrations in African jungles and the wild carnivals which focuses on array artists such as Gloria Estefan, Tito Puente, Dizzy Gillespie, Desi Arnaz, Celia Cruz, Ruben Blades, Isaac Oviedo, King Sunny Ade also the rare archival footage features Dizzy Gillespie's 1948 number "Manteca," bandleader Xavier Cugat's "Gypsy Mambo," and a cartoon clip of Donald Duck doing "Tico Tech
The plan in place for this research is to learn about the development of the genre of music and dance known as salsa. The support written will include how salsa affected a people and why it became identifiable with the Puerto Rican culture this will also include how this music and dance crossed social and racial barriers. In addition to personal interest, it is important to share the cultural aspects of the pride that Puerto Rican’s have about music and dance and how they identify with salsa. How this opened the communication with other races and may have even defined a newly found ethnicity (“ethnicity is determined based on the social and cultural groups you belong to”). “Ethics vs Morals.” Diffen.com. Diffen LLC, n.d. Web. 2 Feb 2016.
Saturday, October 17, 2015 Miramar Cultural Center presented Ballet Hispanico. A ballet that completely left me lost for words… How I’m supposed to write about it now? First of all the Theater was breathtaking, there were three rows that lead to a beautiful stage. I sat in the middle to get the best view. They started right on time introducing the Ballet and explaining some of the importance of the Ballet. Ballet Hispanico was founded by Tina Ramirez in 1970. After the show Artistic Director Eduardo Vilaro explained that the purpose of Ballet Hispanico is to reflect the Latin American Culture. Knowing one of the performers Christopher Hernandez, he told me that all the dances gives a feel of what it is like in the Latin culture. The dance