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      • Since the 19th-century Cuban music has been hugely popular and influential throughout the world. It has been perhaps the most popular form of regional music since the introduction of recording technology.
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  1. Between the end of the 19th century and the beginning of the 20th a number of composers excel within the Cuban music panorama. They cultivated genres such as the popular song and the concert lied, dance music, the zarzuela and the vernacular theatre, as well as symphonic music.

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  3. May 2, 2024 · Emerging in the late 19th century, Son Cubano crystallized as a distinctive musical expression in the eastern highlands of Cuba, particularly in the Oriente province. The genre evolved from a confluence of various influences that reflect the complex socio-cultural milieu of Cuba during this period.

  4. The Caribbean island of Cuba has been influential in the development of multiple musical styles in the 19th and 20th centuries. The roots of most Cuban musical forms lie in the cabildos, a form of social club among African slaves brought to the island.

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    Cuba received an influx of over a million African natives in the 300 years preceding Cuba’s abolition of slavery in 1873. forced to Cuba by the Spanish settlers in order to work the gold mines, sugar and tobacco plantations, the majority of the slaves were originally from what is today Nigeria, the Congo, and Angola. From this unique blend of origi...

    Since music and dance have always been a way of life in Cuba, all the dance and music styles and their various evolutionary counterparts would fill a book. However, chief among the genres that got their start on this small Caribbean island is danzon, rumba, conga and musica campensina. In the urban centers, contradanza — based on the French salon s...

    As waves of immigrants migrated north to the United States, Cuban music fused with other musical formats in the urban centers. In the mid-twentieth century, new popular musical styles were born from this fusion giving us the mambo, cha cha cha and, of course, salsa. It’s difficult to say who “invented” some of the popular Cuban-inspired musical for...

  5. Mar 6, 2024 · Sounds from Havana: A brief history of Cuban music : All Songs Considered Alt.Latino's Anamaria Sayre and Felix Contreras visited Cuba and give us an audio-rich tour of Havana.

  6. Oct 22, 2023 · Salsa, a genre that emerged from the Cuban son montuno, took the world by storm in the 1970s. Fueled by the energy of Afro-Cuban rhythms and jazz improvisation, salsa music became a global phenomenon, captivating audiences with its infectious beats and passionate dance moves.

  7. Aug 25, 2015 · Cuba is often credited with having the greatest influence on the Latin Music we know and listen to today. But where did those songs come from? How did Cuba get her sound? As you will see, Cuban music – like the island country itself – brings to life a number of influences and flavors from the countries who helped shaped its early beginnings.

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