lunes, 21 de febrero de 2011

The Salsa


The Salsa
Salsa is a musical genre and culture, developed by the Latin American Caribbean area is the result of Caribbean immigration to the U.S. after the Second World War.
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Characteristics of the genre:

Rhythm: 
Use as a base the same rhythmic pattern of Cuban-time 2 / 2.
Melody: It has a melodic mix of Latin American features melodic features of conventional jazz and Latin folklore.

Harmony: Couples Portorricanos harmonic features, Colombian and Cuban tinged with jazz and other Latin music.
instrumentation: Use Afro-Latin American instruments such as timbales and cymbals dance, bongo, guiro Cuban cowbell two maracas (in other regions only used one), the instrument Afro-Latin conga and bass chirping instruments (sometimes electric bass), trumpet, saxophone (especially bass) and trombone (in some cases and especially in traditional sauce, used the Cuban tress, flute and violin naughty).
Dress: Man uses pants bell boot shoes, long sleeve shirt, the woman uses a skirt dress with bolero and a shoe or sandal


Main actors in the genre: Rubén Blades machito Ignacio Piñeiro Johnny Pacheco Tito Puente, Willie Colon, Hector Lavoe.


Countries with greater influence of salsa: Colombia, Cuba, Dominican Republic, Panama, Ecuador, United States, Mexico, Puerto Rico, Peru, Panama, Venezuela, Bolivia, Chile, Costa Rica


Definition
The salsa is a genre and culture of Latin countries gestated in the Caribbean area but the undisputed birthplace Cuba
It is very important to know that the sauce needs to be addressed beyond a simple rhythmic pattern, or beyond the key, should be seen as a cultural phenomenon, ethnic harmony, and above all, mixed and popular, because the sauce is born
in the neighborhood, in poverty. And it is essential to differentiate both chronologically and musically-called "Latin Jazz" de la Salsa.
To describe it in a somewhat terse, Salsa, musically speaking, was propelled by musical influences from various styles native West Indians, as the guaracha, pump, guaguancó, cumbia, mambo, cha cha Son Montuno or music Jíbara
indistinguishable for most people. Mainly incorporated into the sauce base, harmonic features of Caribbean aboriginal music and rhythmic elements of Afro-American jazz and soul.
On the origin of the term "salsa" there are a thousand theories, but none proved to be absolutely true.
It says the name comes from the fusion or blending of different ingredients Caribbean rhythms. Others say the term dates from 1993 when the Cuban musician Ignacio Piñeiro first used the term in a topic of Cuban entitled "Check Sauce." But it was not until the 60's when he gave the "boom" terminology of the word "salsa" as a definition of a genre, for the collaboration and invention of the famous orchestra Fania All-Stars led by the Dominican Johnny Pacheco disappeared lawyer who with Jerry Masucci founded the salsa label Fania Records important at this time also, but rather, a famous speaker Venezuela (Phidias Escalona) used the term to be used as the name of his radio show following a conversation he had at a luncheon when he told his friends, musicians: Pass the salsa.

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