Latin American music refers to music from Mexico, Central America, South America, and the Caribbean. It has been influenced by the blending of indigenous, European, and African musical traditions. Some key elements include polyrhythms from African traditions and instruments like maracas, gourds, pan flutes, and drums. Popular genres include cumbia, tango, rumba, cha-cha, bossa nova, reggae, and foxtrot. Dances like the rumba originated from slave communities in Cuba and South America.

2. • Latin American music refers to
the music of Mexico, Central
America, South America, as well
as the entire Caribbean.
• influenced by the mixture and
fusion of races, religions, and
cultural heritages from the pre-
Columbian times up to the
present.

3. • In 2017, the music of Latinos
exploded in popularity with Luis
Fonsi’s “Despacito”.
• Music was performed during rites
of passage, work, and leisure
activities, and even
communicating with the spiritual
world.

4. Polyrhythm
• Most important element in Latin
music.
• One of the rights given to African
slaves was to perform their
drums, and so they brought many
rhythmic patterns and beats with
them to Central and South
America.

5. Latin Instruments

6.  a pair of
small open-
bottomed
drums of
different
sizes.

7.  an empty gourd
with a ragged
surface that
produces a
rasping sound
when scraped
with a stick

8.  an ancient vessel
flute consisting of
4-12 finger holes
and a mouthpiece
projecting from its
body.

9.  a tall, narrow,
single-headed
drum staved like
barrels

10.  a pair of short
wooden sticks
that produce a
bright clicking
noise when struck
together

11.  a pan-flute made
up of a series of
cane tubes bound
together, open at
one end and
closed at the
other.

12.  Cumbia
 Tango
 Rumba
 Cha-Cha
 Bossa Nova
 Reggae
 Foxtrot

13.  music in Colombia
 A courtship dance
performed among the
slave communities and
was later combined with
European instruments.

14.  a ballroom dance
 performed by a man
and a woman,
expressing romance in
synchronized
movements.

15.  originated from the word
rumbear which means good
times, going to parties, and
dancing.
 Used to be an intimate pantomime
danced in a very fast manner with
overstressed hip movements.
 An aggressive and sensual
personality of a man exchanges
with a defensive attitude of a
woman.

16.  a lively, flamboyant, and
flirtatious Cuban social
dance.
 Its light and bubbly feel gives
it a unique sense of fun and
play.
 You may hear it counted like:
“One, two, cha-cha-cha”

17. “Cha-Cha –Eat Bulaga”

18.  famous for its “chill”
sounds, its typical
instruments include
the nylon guitar,
plucked upright bass
and piano.

19.  Started when Jamaican musicians heard New
Orleans RnB through transistor radios.
 They developed their own up-tempo variation with
skittering guitar and syncopated rhythms called
SKA.

21.  Exhibition dancers turned
foxtrot into the most exciting
and original of dances.
 This ballroom dance
provided means of enjoying
music in a background that
many people could afford
and enjoy.

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