Lab Questions:
1.Describe some of the influence of Latin music in the US in the early part of the twentieth century.Latin music started a new type of music, Jazz and Afro-Cuban Jazz.
2.What was the significance of "Machito and His Afro-Cubans"? “Machito and His Afro-Cubans” created Afro-Cuban Jazz.
3.How did Dizzy Gillespie incorporate Latin music into his music? Gillespie invited a player named Chano, who was from Cuba, and they worked together.
4.What was the Palladium?The is located in mid-town Manhattan, once a dance studio but transformed into the home of the Mambo 5.
5. How did the television and films increase the exposure of the US to Latin music? and films increased the exposure Latin music to the US by making sure that everyone would slowly become familiar with it. For example, the TV show “I Love Lucy” helped show that a white woman and a Cuban man could be together, him also being of Cuban decent, he played music on the shows as well.
6. How did Latin music influence rock music? and Latin music had the same cord progression, bass lines and rhythms. The 1-2-cha-cha-cha was the main one.
7.Why do you think Latin music had such a great influence on the development of popular music? Latin music had such a great influence on the development of popular music because there is always something new to come out of Latin music; it has fun upbeat rhythms that everyone loves listening to.
8.Do you think that any of the music that you listen to has Latin influences? Why or why not? Yes, I believe that Latin music does influence a lot of music I listen to. I feel a lot of the music I listen to has similar rhythms.