The music of Latin America was influenced by indigenous, Spanish-Portuguese, and African influences. It developed across regions including the Andes, Central America, the Caribbean, and Brazil. Indigenous music used instruments like turtle shells and was functional for ceremonies and worship. European colonizers introduced styles like Renaissance melodies. African influences included complex rhythms from drums and percussion. Popular genres that emerged include samba, son cubano, and salsa, fusing elements from various cultures.

1. MUSIC OF LATIN
AMERICA

2. The music of LATIN AMERICA is the product of
three major influences-indigenous, Spanish-
Portuguese, and African.

3. It is also referred to as Latin music because of the impact on the
countries colonized by Spain and Portugal, spanning the
following areas:
• Andean region
• Central America
• Caribbean
• Brazil

4. INFLUENCES OF LATIN
AMERICAN MUSIC

5. INDIGENOUS LATIN-AMERICAN MUSIC
The indigenous music of Latin America was
largely functional in:
• Being used for religious worship and
ceremonies.
• Served to implore the gods for a good
harvest
• Victory in battle, to guard against sickness
• Natural disasters and provide recreation.

6. INDIGENOUS LATIN-AMERICAN MUSIC
Before the Spanish, Portuguese and other European colonizers,
the natives were found using local drum and percussion
instruments such as:
TURTLE SHELLS
MARACAS
GUIRO

7. ZAMPONA
QUENA

8. Materials for making indigenous instruments ranged from:
 hallow tree trunks
 animal skins
 fruit shells
 dry seeds
 cane
 clay and hardwood trees
 jaguar claws
 animal and human bones
 specially-treated inflated eyes
of tigers.

9. AFRO-LATIN AMERICAN MUSIC
Most pronounced in its rich and varied rhythmic
patterns produced by drums and various percussion
instruments.
Complex layering where fast-paced tempos add to
the rhythmic density
Vocal music is often deep-chested as instrumental
music greatly relied on drums and buzzers to produce
rich sounds and occasional loud volume levels for
added intensity,

10.  The different regions of Latin America adopted various
characteristics from their European colonizers.
 Melodies of Renaissance period were used in Southern Chile
and the Colombian Pacific coasts.
 Alternating dual meters, 6/8 and 4/4 known as “Sesquialtera”
found in Chile and adopted in Cuba and Puerto Rico, were
immortalized in the song “I Wanna Be in America” by Leonard
Bernstein’s Broadway hit West Side Story.
EURO-LATIN AMERICAN MUSIC

11. MIXED AMERICAN MUSIC
 The diversity of races and cultures from the Native
American, Afro-Latin Americans and Euro-Latin Americans
account for rich combinations of musical elements.
 The massive infusion of African culture also led to the
introduction of other music and dance forms such as the
Afro-Cuban rumba, the Jamaican reggae, the Colombian
cumbia, and the Brazilian Samba.

12. POPULAR LATIN
AMERICAN MUSIC

13. POPULAR LATIN AMERICAN
MUSIC
Latin America has produced a number of musical
genres and forms that has been influenced by
European folk music, African traditional music and
native sources
Some of the Latin American popular music forms are
tango, bossa nova, samba, son, and salsa.

14. POPULAR LATIN AMERICAN MUSIC
1.Samba - A dance form of African origin
which evolved into an African-Brazilian
favorite in the slum districts of Rio de Janeiro.
Its lively rhythm consists of 2/4 meter that is
danced as three per measure, thus creating a
feeling of ¾ meter instead.

15. POPULAR LATIN AMERICAN MUSIC
2. Son – A fusion of the popular music or canciones (songs)
of Spain and the African rumba rhythms of Bantu origin.
Originated in Cuba, it is usually played with the guitar,
contrabass, bongos, maracas, and claves.

16. POPULAR LATIN AMERICAN MUSIC
3. Salsa– A social dance with marked influences
from Cuba and Puerto Rico that started in New
York in mid 1970s.
 Its style contains elements from the swing
dance and hustle as well as the complex Afro-
Cuban and Afro-Carribean dance forms of
Pachanga and Guaguanco.