LATIN AMERICAN DANCE MUSIC
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CUMBIA
a genre of music that originated on Colombia’s Caribbean coast as a ritual courtship dance of African slaves.
TANGO
emerged in the mid to late 1800s as a dance of the “underclass,”performed mainly by men in “houses of ill repute”
SAMBA
characterized by simple forward and backward steps and tilting, rocking body movements.
quadruple meter with syncopated rhythms.
what meter and rhythm is used in samba
BOSSA NOVA
union of samba and cool jazz
“new way”
what does bossa nova mean
syncopated duple meter
what is the rhythm and meter of bossa nova
background becomes more subdued to allow the singer greater range for improvisation.
what happens during vocalized passages
Agua de Beber by Astrud Gilberto
GIRL from IPANEMA
Oye Como Va (covered by Tito Puente and Santana)
examples of bossa nova music
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