The History of Latin Music

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Latin Music is combination of all types of sounds, rhythms, beats, and vocals. This type of music is the product of influences of different cultures from different periods and the behavior of society due to the Columbus exploration of the Americas. Many things were exchange and adapted because of this. Even though there were a lot of tragic and traumatizing events that happened the development of Latin music was one of the positive things that happened. This essay is going to be about the History of Latin music and how it has become very popular in America and the World.
Latin music history began with one of the most influential and indigenous people, who loved to create music with “wind and percussion instruments”, and they the Mayans. Originally the wind and percussion instruments were made to copy and remake the music of the Europeans. There was a lot of other cultures, which used wind instruments like flutes to make rhythms and sounds that would in turn become music. Many cultures use this type of original music today in various Latin music.
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