En muchos de los países de habla hispana de todo el mundo, la música es una gran parte de la cultura. This sentence translates to: In many of the spanish speaking countries around the world, music is a big part of the culture. Due to various reasons, the countries that speak Spanish around the world have many differences in the genres of music they listen to. There are twenty-one countries throughout the world that consider Spanish their official language. They include Argentina, Bolivia, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Cuba, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, El Salvador, Equatorial Guinea, Guatemala, Honduras, Mexico, Nicaragua, Panama, Paraguay, Peru, Puerto Rico, Spain, Uruguay, and Venezuela. All of these countries have vast differences in the …show more content…
They mainly added a traditional Spanish style called flamenco. Flamenco is a custom Spanish dance associated with singing, dancing, guitar, and castanets. This additional style gave the music the perfect touch. It was exactly what Spain was looking for. Then, in the sixty’s and seventy’s, Spain experienced a large tourism bust that brought all types of music and culture from around the world. This led to Francisco Franco’s death in nineteen seventy-five as the country attempted to resurrect its democratic government, economy, and culture. This was called La Movida Madrileña, “The Madrilenian scene”. The country found new freedom and developed interest in other types of music, like punk and rock ’n roll, which can still be found to be true in Spain …show more content…
Born as Shakira Isabel Mebarak Ripoll in nineteen seventy-seven, she was born and raised in Barranquilla, Colombia and later became a famous singer, songwriter, dancer, record producer, choreographer, and model. Her claim to fame was due to the ingenious combination of Colombian bellydancing and music, traditional American pop styles, and the use of classic instruments like flutes. Everyone around the world was blown away by this perfect combination that was never seen before. Her first hit, “Whenever, Wherever” ignited her career in Columbia as well as the United States. After her first hit, she quickly began gaining
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During the late 19th century and early 20th century, a form of Mexican folk music called the corrido gained popularity along the Mexico-Texan border (Saldívar). Growing from the Spanish romance tradition, the corrido is a border ballad “that arose chronicling the history of border conflicts and its effects on Mexican-Mexican culture” (Saldívar). A sort of “oral folk history,” the corrido was studied intensely by Américo Paredes, who then constructed his masterpiece, George Washington Gomez, around the “context and theme” of the corrido (Mendoza 146). But the novel is not a traditional corrido, in which the legendary hero defends his people and dies for his honor. Instead, through its plot, characterization, and rhetorical devices, George Washington Gomez is an anti-corrido.
Music from Mexico began making its way to America in the late 1800s when border culture and commerce was beginning to develop. Corrido and Ranchera developed and reached popularity in Texas when nortenos music came to Texas. Texas singer Lydia Mendoza’s song “Bad Man” became a hit and played on the radio in the southwestern US which clued listeners in to the border music scene. She and her family continued to record tangos, corridos, rancheras, and boleros that increased the presence of border music in American culture. The accordion came to Mexico in the 1860s and when it was brought over the border into Texas, the conjunto style was popularized in America. The most famous of these are polkas.
Mariachi is a type of folk music in Mexico. It is usually performed in an ensemble at weddings and other celebrations. Mariachi is generally composed of string instruments along with a few woodwinds. Mariachi originally was thought to come from the French word for marriage, but now linguists believe that it came from Spanish for a certain wood tree used as a dancing platform.
Trujillo followed a similar route in which he adopted the music of the merengue cibaeño as the national music. Merengue was not performed in ballrooms outside of el cibao, it was shunned in high society dances and ballrooms until Trujillo made it the national music, “In 1936, Trujillo made an official declaration making the Cibao merengue the official music and dance genre of the Dominican Republic” (Ryan). He hired a band, renamed it la Orquesta de Presidensia Trujillo and made it his personal band. Trujillo had this band tour with him whenever he traveled for political campaigns or other reasons. People were shocked to hear this traditional and rough sounding music in these high society events. By using propaganda, Trujillo managed to bring merengue into the ballrooms and turn Merengue tipico Cibaeño into a national symbol. Trujillo also used merengue to unify the nation, thus homogenizing the
During the Enlightenment in Europe and The Americas the Hispanic Baroque that covers from the year 1600 to the year 1750 approximately. This time period, as opposed to the Renaissance, was an era where the feelings of distrust, disappointment, and pessimism was always present. A very important and recognized author of the Hispanic Baroque was Sor Juana Ines de la Cruz because of her defense of women’s intellectual rights against men (Puchner, 68). Sor Juana is mostly known for her Respuesta a Sor Filotea, which where she defends women to receive an education, and to be treated equally. During the Hispanic Baroque there were ethical, moral, and social aspects or issues. An ethical aspect was self representation, but because people wanted to make themselves a better representation there was a lack of modesty. A moral aspect of that time period was that men were to be
I have grown up listening to Hip-Hop just as I did listening to my mother’s blaring Bachata and Merengue every Sunday morning and from what I can recall, the artists I primarily listened to were black, or Eminem. The only Spanish rappers I did listen to were Reggaeton artists, meaning I did not listen to many predominately English speaking Latino rappers. This revelation of my early musical tastes begs the question as to why I was not exposed to more Latino rappers during the late nineties and early millennium. In learning about how Latino’s have participated within the realm of Hip-Hop, one learns that allow Latino’s have played a major role in its foundations, the call for a strong identity has emerged due to various group’s rejections of the Latino presence.
...e two main forms of Zarzuelo, the Baroque and romantic Zarzuela. The masque-like musical theatre had existed in Spain since the era of Juan del Encina, the genre was giving dramatic function to the musical numbers and choruses were incorporated as well. In 1657 at the Royal Palace of El Prado, King Phili IV of Spain and Queen Mariana attended the first performance of a new comedy by Pedro Calderon de la Barca. The golden age of zarzuela lasted under two decades from the 1920s and 30s. During this period, venues in La Habana hosted a number of production theater shows. Cuban zarzuela played a major role in the development of Cuban identities
World music may sound as simple as its name suggests, however the world music phenomenon expresses a deeper story that many people seem to miss. There is so much that makes up a world music genre, but what we hear about it is not always the easiest to decipher and generally comes from powerful and large organisations, where not all of it is explained thoroughly. A lot of their understanding comes from what they are only interested in and most important stories and factors are either ignored or incomplete (Stokes 2003, p. 297). Not receiving the full picture, gives us a limited understanding of world music and its sub genres. Different genres of music over the globe have been shaped in many ways by influences such as the; historical and traditional root, people and their culture, migration, globalisation, politics and commodification. Nueva Canción is one example of a world music genre that has been influenced in such ways, and of which has a strong historical and political story worthy to be recognised. This essay will focus on the way the genre, Nueva Canción has become a significant genre of world music, by exploring the influences stated previously.
The Spanish eating, drinking and dancing culture steps up a gear (if that's possible), when there's a festival on. Every town or village has a local fiesta, at which point the locals don't just eat and drink because it's fun, they do so because it would be un-Spanish not to.
Flamenco (may refer to ‘Flamingo’ - bird or the ‘Flanders’ region) originated (much later than Kathak) in 18th century Southern Spain-Andalucía . It was mostly performed by the Andalucía society that comprised Gitano (Gypsies). However, unlike Kathak, Flamenco dancers were from diverse professional backgrounds and the dance was not necessarily confined to a small group of people. Unlike Kathak, Flamenco dance lacked prestige because the Gitanos were discriminated and prosecuted because of their ethnicity. Flamenco mostly dealt with themes of hope/struggle/will power/bonding/patriotism - a representation of the general life of the gypsies. The early form of Flamenco solely consisted of verbal communication of stories carrying the mentioned themes.
Twentieth century Latin America was a period of cultural renaissance: from the birth of the rock movement in Mexico to the rise of nueva canción in Chile, youth were finding new ways of expressing themselves within the confines of their governments. The dawn of cultural upheaval in Mexico was rock n’ roll, a movement inspired by US artists that defied traditional social values in favor of lax morality and propagated the raucous spirit of youth. Following rock n’ roll were rock, a period of more socially conscious music associated with psychedelia and irreverence, and La Onda, a wave of counterculture that expressed disillusionment towards a government denying free expression. Around the time of La Onda, a new movement rose to prominence in
Flamenco is an individualistic folk art, a genuine Southern art form, which was mainly originated by Andalusian gypsies. It exists in 3 forms: El cante, song, el baile, dance and guitarrra, guitar playing. Its roots also are with Arabs, Spanish Jews and socially outcasted Christians. The flamenco essence is song, which is usually accompanied by guitar and improvised dance. Complex rhythmic patterns and sophisticated footwork differs from other European dance forms.
The Latin American music scene is an amazingly diverse, engaging and entertaining music culture. Thomas (2011) explains, “…Latin American music has engaged in ongoing dialogue and cultural exchange that has profoundly affected music making in Europe and the United States and, more recently, in Africa and Asia as well”. This paper will be describing different aspects of the music culture from its musical features, to the historical aspect of this interesting music culture. Also, I will discuss a personal experience with Latin American music. After researching the music culture, I attended a concert performed by Boogat, an Emmy award nominated Latin American musician from Quebec who has toured all over North America. Latin American music culture
The influence that music has throughout the world is immeasurable. Music evokes many feelings, surfaces old memories, and creates new ones all while satisfying a sense of human emotion. With the ability to help identify a culture, as well as educate countries about other cultures, music also provides for a sense of knowledge. Music can be a tool for many things: relaxation, stimulation and communication. But at the same time it can also be a tool for resistance: against parents, against police against power. Within the reign of imported culture, cross cultivation and the creation of the so-called global village lies the need to expand horizons to engulf more than just what you see everyday. It is important to note that the role of music in today’s world is a key tool in the process of globalization. However, this does not necessarily provide us with any reasons that would make us believe that music has a homogenizing affect on the world.