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| | Music Genre: Salsa - Music of Puerto Rico (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-02) |
 | | It encompasses a broad range of musical genres, instrumental combinations and cultural influences, ranging from Cuban son montuno, Puerto Rican bomba and plena, Dominican merengue, Cuban Yoruba ritual music and Afro-American jazz and rhythm and blues. |
 | | This music had always been called by the names of the various genres, for example: cha-cha-cha, mambo, guaguancó, son montuno, etc. In any case, they finally had to accept that the label greatly helped the commercial development of this music form. |
 | | Another major component of salsa is the ritual music associated with the practice of santeria, including their use of "bata" drums. |
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