Cuban music SalsaTimbaCuban music has played a practical and fundamental part of the history of music in the twentieth century. The topic of the new styles of music, most conspicuously that of Timba, has never been written about from a sociological point of view. Head of the influential Afro-Cuban group Los Van Van, Juan Formell, says that Timba lies halfway between the traditional Cuban son and salsa.
Latin PopDifferent styles of Latin American music and dance have combined with each other and then merged with North American pop and jazz styles for many years. Slaves remembered the rhythms, dances and percussion instruments from Africa and applied them to Spanish songs. African music and dance mixed with Catholic music and religious practices. The outcome is a globally accepted compilation of music and dance styles called Latin pop.
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