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  Salsa
Salsa music is a broad term that is used with various meanings depending on the context; its exact
Salsa evolved steadily through the later 1970s and into the '80s and '90s.
The growth of modern salsa, however, is said to have begun in the streets of New York in the late
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  Salsa music Summary
Salsa's closest relatives are Cuban mambo and the son orchestras of the early 20th century, as well as Latin jazz.
Salsa bands play a wide variety of songs, including pieces based on plenas and bombas, cumbia, vallenato and merengue; most songs, however, are modern versions of the Cuban son.
Salsa music is traditionally based on a 4/4 time signature, and is mostly phrased in groups of two bars (eight beats), such as recurring rhythmic patterns and main phrases of the chorus.
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 Latin Music
Salsa music is a diverse and predominantly Caribbean and Latin genre that is popular across Latin America and among Latinos abroad; the style is the primary music played at Latin danceclubs and is the "essential pulse of Latin music", according to author Ed Morales.
Salsa music is a very broad term that can be used with various meanings depending on the context; its exact meaning is the subject of many arguments among aficionados.
Salsa means sauce in the Spanish language, and has been described as a word with "vivid associations but no absolute definitions, a tag that encompasses a rainbow assortment of Latin rhythms and styles, taking on a different hue wherever you stands in the Spanish-speaking world".
www.legendvega.com /latinmusic/salsa.htm   (1957 words)

  
 San Diego, salsa Dancing, salsa lessons, mambo, on1, on2, cha-cha
What makes the salsa dance unique is its ability to absorb the many steps and turns from other dances such as the mambo, cumbia, hustle, swing, jazz, and other local dances.
Uniting the all styles of salsa despite these differences is an underlying rhythmic frame established by the clave, a pair of smooth wooden cylindrical blocks.
Salsa was later brought to the United States with the Latino immigration to big cities such as New York, Miami, and Los Angeles.
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 Salsa & Merengue Society – A History of Merengue: Merengue Moves Abroad
Perhaps this has helped the merengue to avoid the crisis of legitimacy that salsa endures today: merengue cibaeño is Dominican, a fact affirmed by them at every opportunity, to the acknowledgement even of Puerto Ricans who play it so well and have absorbed it into their own culture.
Salsa suave, salsa erotica and salsa romantica were the mainstays of the era: with lyrics that were virtually identical between songs, music that was uninspiring, and sung by artists with small voices.
Salsa, whose appeal had once been its relevance to urban life, had lost touch with its audience; causing second generation Puerto Ricans to abandon Latin music in favour of mainstream pop.
www.salsa-merengue.co.uk /revealit/histmer/part6.html   (710 words)

  
 History of Salsa
As far as he is concerned it is all Cuban music and salsa is a term that has more relation to the kitchen than to music.
By the end of the decade, however, salsa found on the defensive against an onslaught of merengue and hip-hop and an internal creative decline.
Firstly “Salsa” technically is not a dance, it was a name given to a fusion of various Cuban style rhythms such as Son, guaracha, guaguanco, guarija.
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 Where's the Salsa?   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
When I went to the Salsa Congress in 1997, the clubs played Salsa, but I've been receiving emails now from all over the world with complaints of the lack of Salsa Clubs on the island..
In Puerto Rico although there are several Salsa radio stations and a sizeable number of the population listens to salsa, salsa dancers are a species in danger of extinction.
They were playing a lot of Salsa when we got there, but that was a tape that the DJ put on so he could take a break.
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 World Music Central - Salsa
Salsa is an energetic song and dance style that combines Cuban son, Afro-Puerto Rican beats and sounds from other Spanish-speaking Caribbean countries, with American jazz and other styles.
Internationally regarded as one of the finest Colombian salsa bands, The Latin Brothers were originally influenced by the (then) new sound of two extra trombones in a music group, pioneered by Venezuelan salsa legend Oscar D'León and his band Dimensión Latina.
A variant known as Salsa Dura is a term that defines salsa as it developed in New York, with genres and rhythms drawn from Cuba and other islands in the Caribbean melding with the tempo, drive and improvisational techniques picked up by the immigrants in New York City.
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 Salsa Magazine - The Rise Of Salsa - Salsa-magazine, Salsa Roots and Memorabilia
The word salsa is actually an umbrella term that encompasses a wide variety of clearly distinctive, but equally addictive Afro-Caribbean rhythms and dances: the mystically tinged rumba, the elegant danzón, the sinuous cha cha cha, the joyful guaracha, the explosive mambo and, most importantly, the earthy son, the island's quintessential song format.
Whereas his career was blessed with success, Lavoé's personal life was a horrible succession of tragedies, including the death of his son at age 17, the brutal murder of his mother-in-law and a heroin addiction that eventually resulted in his infection with the HIV virus and his death of complications from AIDS at age 46.
Whereas Héctor Lavoé was the definitive salsa singer, Rubén Blades was the genre's ultimate songwriter, a brilliant thinker who revolutionized Afro-Cuban music by combining infectious melodies with lyrics that cast a poetic, often sarcastic glance at the vicissitudes of modern life.
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 SALSA : MusicWeb Encyclopaedia of Popular Music   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Salsa is mainly derived from Cuban music, which contributed traditional Latin percussion (i.e.
Central to NYC salsa was the Fania label, formed '64 by Johnny Pacheco and Jerry Masucci, the roster including Pacheco, Larry Harlow, Bobby Valentín, Ray Barretto, Willie Colón (and his lead vocalist Héctor Lavoe), Roberto Roena and the house band, Fania All Stars.
These and others created a salsa boom which peaked in the mid-'70s, just as it was being discovered by non-Latin fans who thought it was something new.
www.musicweb-international.com /encyclopaedia/s/S9.HTM   (704 words)

  
 LyricsVault: History of music;Salsa music
Salsa incoporates multiple styles and variations; the term can be used to describe most any form of the popular Cuban-derived musical genres (like chachachá and mambo), but is most often applied to a mid-1970s group of New York City-area Cuban and Puerto Ricann immigrants to the United States, and stylistic descendants like 1980s salsa romantica.
Salsa's roots can be traced back to the African ancestors that were brought to the Caribbean by the Spanish as slaves.
Salsa most direct antecedent is Cuban son montuno, which itself is a combination of African and European influences.
www.lyricsvault.net /history/salsa.html   (871 words)

  
 Salsa: National Geographic World Music   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Salsa was hot, not only on the U.S. East Coast, but also in South America as well as Central America; even European, Japanese and African audiences were treated to this new sound.
In the '70s, salsa was an "urban folklore of the city," as Rubén Blades once said, and it would remain as one of the world's most influential music and dance genres in the decades to come.
Salsa has spread throughout the globe, and lives on the in new generations of players and dancers alike.
worldmusic.nationalgeographic.com /worldmusic/view/page.basic/genre/content.genre/salsa_781   (699 words)

  
 Paris's own DJ Gabriel - Papa Gabriel shakes the pistes
Gabriel was born in Lomé, Togo, and had his ears dipped in salsa music by his father, whose musical tastes ran from Zaire to Cuba, Puerto Rico and New York, and Haiti, in the music of Celia Cruz, Johnny Pacheco, Monguito and Labah Sosseh, among others.
My first salsa congress as Official DJ, it was they who invited me." But there was a point at which his growing collection of disks and passion for the search for swing drove him away from the dancefloor, to the turntables.
No one knows where salsa is going these days, there are a few known quantities, but salsa is blending with soul, and the future is unknown.
www.salsafrance.com /article.php3?id_article=324   (1029 words)

  
 Salsa Cubana: dictionary
Salsa (or Casino) with a group of people in a circle all doing the same moves in response to a caller's commands.
Salsa gorda: Refers to the heavy bass and driving percussion sound of the 70's and early 80's of such bands as Ray Baretto, Willie Colon, Larry Harlow, Hector Lavoe, Eddie Palmieri, and Fania All Stars.
Salsa romantica: Romantic lyrics, emphasis on the singer, with few solos on the part of the musicians, and less influenced by jazz than the salsa gorda.
www.salsacubana.no /dictio.htm   (1056 words)

  
 Salsa music - Salsa Wiki - a Wikia wiki   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Salsa bands play a wide variety of songs, including pieces based on plenas and bombas, cumbia, vallenato and merengue; most songs, however, are modern versions of the Cuban son.
Like the son, salsa songs begin with a songlike section followed by a montuno break with call-and-response vocals, instrumental breaks and jazzy solos.[23] In the United States, the music of a salsa club is a mix of salsa, merengue, cha-cha-cha and bachata, whether sourced from a live band or a DJ.
Salsa songs commonly start with one clave and then switch to the reverse partway through the song, without restarting the clave rhythm; instead, the rhythm is shifted four beats using breaks and stop-time.
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 History of Salsa
Salsa is a tropical music form with roots in the Afro-Cuban tradition.
Recent Salsa converts are being introduced to the classics by knowledgeable disc jockeys and are loving what they hear.
Salsa is not a fad or a passing phase.
www.salsacentro.com /historyculture/salsahistory.html   (606 words)

  
 Salsa Photos
At the southern heat of the UKA Salsa Championship, held at the regular Caliente Club night, a surprise result delighted the crowd.
A closely danced contest of salsa romantica and fast salsa left the judges deliberating over who had won, and the audience had to wait for fifteen minutes as the final decision was made.
Maxine was stunned, she said "I was dragged in two seconds before the contest, so there was no time to get nervous, but out on the dance floor I did get wobbly legs".
www.salsagold.co.uk /photos/sotoncomp.htm   (246 words)

  
 From the Son to the Salsa
Remember that Salsa is not a rhythm or a style, but a broad term which can be used to represent the Afro-Cuban based music coming out of the East Coast and Puerto Rico.
One must also note that Puerto Rican and other musicians also played a great part in the preservation and development of this music in the US, and that their interpretations really would create something new and different than that which was being played in Cuba.
By the 70s, the coining of the term "Salsa" on the East Coast came at a time when the music was experiencing enormous popularity, as well as a growth in the recording industry.
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 Salsa Night Band Salsa Music Clips
Most specifically, salsa, which means sauce, refers to a particular style developed by the 1960s and '70s Cuban and Puerto Rican immigrants to the New York City area, and stylistic descendants like 1980s salsa romantica.
Modern salsa is a dance-oriented genre and is closely associated with a style of
The most important instrumentation in salsa is the percussion, which is played by a wide variety of instruments, including claves, cowbells, timbales and conga.
www.salsanightband.com /Music.html   (194 words)

  
 Romantic Salsa
By the 1980's, the Salsa world experienced fierce comptetition with the Dominican merengue particularly because of the syncopated nature of Afro-Cuban based music and the complexity of the dance styles.
With the so-called Salsa Romantica (romantic salsa), the tempos slowed to an almost mechanical pace, as if performed with a metronome or sequencer, and the music seemed to lack the fire and energy of its predecessors.
No necessarily related to the romantica genre is a rhythmic development which seems to have occurred around the 1980's and is unique to patterns in three-two clave direcction.
www.chapu.com /site/cultura/ingles/salsaromanti.html   (734 words)

  
 History
[Salsa] Salsa was the result of a musical evolution of various types of Latin rhythms.
The film "Salsa", edited from the film footage of the concert and encorporating images taken from the archives of Hollywood where famous scenes and people were shown dancing and singing supposedly Salsa rhythms, appealed to the American consumer society because it interpreted salsa as another "Made in the USA" product.
The 'Salsa Romantica' movement irratated the salseros but interested a new audience and their records sold well accross the world.
www.albertos.com /Salsa/History/history.html   (693 words)

  
 Origins of Salsa - The Puerto Rican Influence   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
This new sub-genre of salsa is known as "Salsa Romantica".
Today, Salsa Romantica maintains its popularity with its new wave of stars such as Marc Anthony, La India, Jerry Rivera, and Victor Manuelle attracting old as well as young salsa fans around the world.
Salsa might describe a unique component of a dance but it also describes a unique style of music that requires the dancer to mix and match the steps and moves they know to match the music.
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 ed2k URL for file "Salsa Romantica - Mark Anthony - A puro dolor"
Salsa Romantica - Mark Anthony - A puro dolor
Salsa Romantica - Mark Anthony - A puro dolor.mp3
Salsa Romantica - Mark Anthony - A puro dolor(1).mp3
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 Salsa Timba por Osvaldo Chacón - CD Reviews with SalsaPower!
Most of it is in the perfect tempo for salsa dancing, neither blazingly fast nor soporifically slow, with strongly accented rhythms that encourage movement.
Other songs, particularly the opening and closing tracks, are good examples of salsa timba, with strongly salsa romántica verse sections, driving mambo sections and in several instances, the integration of rap.
Salsa Timba combina una variedad de ritmos, estilos y voces para terminar con una salsa tan sabrosa como para antojar a cualquier gusto.
www.salsapower.com /cdreviews/chacon2.htm   (907 words)

  
 Salsa
Despite of a prejudice that connoisseurs have against salsa romantica we have to admit that it prevented salsa from dying and spoiling.
This style that has taken over the mainstream of salsa contributes to the fact that today the majority of salsa musicians are not hardened professionals who have passed the severe school of life: a long way from third-rate clubs to worldwide popularity (like Willy Colon or Oscar De León).
All these facts prove that salsa is alive: having a rich history it keeps changing and developing, attracting more and more aficionados.
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 Salsa Fever On2 Dance Academy - Pablo San Gabriel
During the emergence of Salsa Romantica, Pablo was a part-time disco/dance DJ in the mid-80's and early 90's, and was dismayed that salsa dancing was "dying" in, out of all places, his native island.
While in college and graduate school, he was able to get his occasional salsa "fix" by playing in a few alternative clubs in Philadelphia and Boston.
He was fascinated how hustle dancers could switch to salsa and mambo, but shyly decided to remain “in the DJ booth”.
www.salsafeveron2.com /Team/members/pablo.htm   (340 words)

  
  SalsaOnline.cz: Články
Z toho se bude učit 9 hodin salsa, 3 hodiny bachata a 3 hodiny cha-cha-cha.
A uslyšíte nespočetnou řadu rytmů jako je salsa, samba, merengue, reggaeton a spoustu dalších...
Samba, Rumba, Afro, Salsa, Reage, Timbalada, Parido Alto a spousty jiných rytmů!
www.salsaonline.cz /salsa_archiv.php   (4494 words)

  
 PalabraOnline.com - Romantic Salsa, Salsa Romantica, Orquesta Palabra, salsa bands in Los Angeles
La Palabra is firmly rooted in the salsa dura sound of the seventies - and with its mambo-tempo rhythm, percussion breaks and horn solos, it recalls the era perfectly"
It's a slammin' salsa track that is hard to resist.
"With all the Buzz that has been going on with Salsa and "Salsa Romantica", it is remarkable that very few people know that the trend that revolutionized salsa which is called "Salsa Romantica" started here in the city of Los Angeles by a local musician, composer, and arranger named 'La Palabra'.
www.palabraonline.com /press.php   (707 words)

  
 Der Salsaholic - CD Review- Salsa Loca: Amor Con Amor
That Salsa eventually went back to Africa was only a logical development, and for the past decade, African Salsa made by Orquestre Baobab, Africando, and Ricardo Lemvo and Makina Loca, has been the hit on the dance floors from New York to Berlin, from Paris to Tokyo.
While Latin musicians grow up with Salsa and related genres, and most are quickly forced into mainstream music to be able to survive, European musicians often come to Salsa like the virgin to the child.
Salsa purists are often reluctant when it comes to blending Salsa with elements of contemporaneous pop music, such as rap and electronic effects.
www.salsaholic.de /cds0402.htm   (1292 words)

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