the world love listening to music, but depending on their location they may have a different taste in music than others. An example of this is the people in Spanish speaking countries. They all share the same language, but their taste in music could not be any more different. Some of the best known genres of traditional music in Mexico are Mariachi, Ranchera, and Norteño. When people think about Mexican music, the first thing that comes to mind is Mariachi music. It is often played at weddings
The Caribbean Island Cuba has influenced a huge growth of many different styles of musics in the 19th and 20th centuries. Cuba is the largest Country in the Caribbean area and is the Seventeenth-largest island in the world. The island of Cuba is in the middle of the Caribbean Sea and the Atlantic Ocean. A lot of Cuban musical styles come from a social group of African Slaves who were taken to the island name "Cabildos". Cabildo's kept the traditional African cultures alive, even during the Emancipation
Music was institutionalized in Europe during the 19th Century. Composing followed a scholarly route that lead to very subtle variation in classical music. Cultures outside of Europe produced music in their own unique style that differed from the usual European composition. Western composers began to incorporate music from other cultures to portray nonnative aspects of European society or bring new life into European Music. Ralph Locke’s spectrum of exoticism classifies compositions based on whether
their catchy salsa music, the great island of Cuba has much to offer. Known as America’s prodigal son, Cuba is the largest island in the Caribbean, containing mountains and low plains used for farming. It has many different habitats, such as forests, jungles, and grasslands. Its different ecosystems are home to many kinds of unique plants and animals found in Cuba only. Many many years ago, the Taino people from Venezuela took over the island. In the year 1511, the Spanish forces beat the Taino
culture was that of the Tainos. Their numbers dwindled in the later half of the 16th century due to new diseases carried by Europeans, exploitation by Spanish settlers, and warfare. The Spanish arrival in 1493 basically marked the beginning of their extinction. Their culture, however, remains part of that of contemporary Puerto Rico. The Spanish settlers took natives to be slaves and pressure from the Roman Catholic Church ended the exploitation. The church had a huge hand in colonizing the island
Rico The Spanish conquered Puerto Rico like they did with most of Latin America and the Caribbean. As discussed in class the Spanish were after three things God, Glory, and Gold which they found in what it today Puerto Rico; ironically Puerto Rico translated to Rich Port. The cultural make of Puerto Rico comes from not only the indigenous people and Spaniards, but also several African communities. Colonialism has had lasting effects throughout Latin America and the Caribbean, from the music and food
American colonization, cuban music has always attracted audiences from different parts of the world whether is because of the Afro-Cuban rhythms or the use of the adapted Spanish guitar style, the tres. In this case, the book Cuando Sali de la Habana 1898-1997: Cien Anos de Musica por el Mundo by Cristobal Diaz Ayala is about the evolution of Cuban music since the end of the 19th century to the modern times. The book deals with the influential aspects of Cuban music and the functionality into the
it the music and ideas of Ancient Greece, whereby the reciting of epic poetry and folk music played an integral role. In the sixth century, Saint Isidore of Seville recorded the first information about the early music of the Christian church. Isidore’s influences were predominantly Greek, yet, being an original thinker, he recorded some of the first information about the early music of the Christian church. Throughout the 17th and 18th centuries a deluge in the ‘Zarzuela’, a Spanish form of
Spanish is born in the Southwest of Europe, called the Iberian Peninsula. The Latvian Latin, mixed with Latin, is called Vulgar Latin. It follows the basic model of Latin. The traditional tribes of Eastern Europe occupied Spain during the year of 400 and use Latin as the official language. In the north, such as Asturias, the linguistic, military, and cultural fields. As Christians move south. Castilian, which is a dialectic native to the northern plains, has been moved to the south and east as the
over, had no choice but to adapt to the new culture. Commonly, only one country will colonize each dormant country. However, Dominican Republic is an exception because it contains the heritage of Taino Indians also known as the natives, Africans and Spanish and creates one extremely distinctive culture. As it can be seen today, some cultures inherit their “old” civilization and it is shown through different characteristics of their ethnicity but not all are easily noticeable.