Dance in Cuba
Encyclopedia
Cuban dance with Cuban rhythms is a distinctive style known throughout Latin America
. Traditional Cuban music has its roots in African culture. Cuban dances include Son
, Danzón
, Danzonete, Cha-cha
, Mambo and others. Cuba has many dances that originated in the country, and which are still alive today and popular in other countries.
Latin America
Latin America is a region of the Americas where Romance languages – particularly Spanish and Portuguese, and variably French – are primarily spoken. Latin America has an area of approximately 21,069,500 km² , almost 3.9% of the Earth's surface or 14.1% of its land surface area...
. Traditional Cuban music has its roots in African culture. Cuban dances include Son
Son (music)
The Son cubano is a style of music that originated in Cuba and gained worldwide popularity in the 1930s. Son combines the structure and elements of Spanish canción and the Spanish guitar with African rhythms and percussion instruments of Bantu and Arará origin...
, Danzón
Danzón
Danzón is the official dance of Cuba. It is also an active musical form in Mexico and is still beloved in Puerto Rico where Verdeluz, a modern danzón by Puerto Rican composer Antonio Cabán Vale is considered the unofficial national anthem...
, Danzonete, Cha-cha
Cha-cha-cha (music)
The Cha-cha-chá is a style of Cuban music. It is popular dance music which developed from the danzón in the early 1950s.- Origin :As a dance music genre, cha-cha-chá is unusual in that its creation can be attributed to a single composer, Enrique Jorrín, then violinist and songwriter with the...
, Mambo and others. Cuba has many dances that originated in the country, and which are still alive today and popular in other countries.
External links
- http://www.cuba-culture.com/cuban-dance.html
- http://www.ife-ile.org/traditions.htm
- http://www2.cedarcrest.edu/academic/soc/ccameron/soc215/cuba/cuba.htm
- http://www.contactomagazine.com/bailable100.htm