Spanish Movement

The Spanish movement Slavery Music has created many genres that are well known in the new world. Other than the British, the slavery route was extended into other region on the Caribbean, which are known as The Spanish Carribean. They also creared music theat captivated the world and is famous and used in the profund Ballroom Dancing.

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Cuba

Starting off with the most influencial music in today's era, the country that consist of many African heritages, Cuba. Cuba has one of the largest musical genres in the Caribbean Spanish Colonies, because of the large number of African heritages and races. Cuba's African heritage's came from Congo, Nigeria, Cameroon, Benin, Liberia, Ivory Coast, Senegambians (current day Senegal and Gambia), and a small number of Sudanese (Hugh, 1971). Having that said, is it possible to imagine the fusions of cultures to form the recognisable genres?


The Most Important rythem is the Clave. The Clave is the basic foundation of most of the Cuban music and including Haiti and Bahian Brazilian or Afro-Brazilian. With Clave the following music is formed:

• Rumba- it was derived from the Congo. Underneath is an example of Congolese Rumba

• Mambo 

• Compara De Conga (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nBBfbODdYY0&feature=related) unfortunately it can not be uploaded but it has a lot of emphasis on the drums

• Salsa (known worldwide)

If the the videos are heard well, you will notice a resemblence in rythem, that rythem is Clave.

Trinidad and Tabago

http://www.caribbeanprincessmusings.com/2011/04/introducing-trinidad-and-tobago.html

From Cuba we move on to Trinidad and Tabago, the home of Calypso. The slaves that were sent to Trindad and Tabago for sugar plantation, brought along their musical essence and created the music called Calypso. Calypso has a heavy use of drums which are made of steel, which have dents and these dents creates different tunes, sounds, with different amplifying levels.

here is a link of a video that shows the different tunes and levels that a calyso band plays :

• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Db0c4aAwUbY&feature=related

Puerto Rico

http://www.hispanicallyspeakingnews.com/notitas-de-noticias/details/us-dol-and-mine-operator-in-puerto-rico-reach-settlement-in-discrimina/5220/

From Trindad and Tabago, moving on to Puerto Rico. Puerto Rico adapted so many genres from different countries such as, reggae from Jamaica, Salsa from Cuba, Calyso from Trinidad, although the one African (Slave)Influencial music that Puerto Rico has is the Bomba.

That is the end of the Spanish Caribbean, and their famous and known music. The next entry speaks about the French Colonies of Grenada and Haiti.

Reference:

Hugh, T. (1971). Cuba, or the Pursuit of freedom.