2. The Machito and his Afro-Cubans helped create salsa music and Cubop as well as redefined Afro-Cuban Jazz.
3. Gillespie was a prime mover in the creation of Afro-Cuban-jazz , a style that brought Cuban people into a jazz context .
4. It was a concert hall. In new York city. Before it was a ball room it was a dance studio.
5. T.V allowed for Latin music to reach a broader and newer audience.
6. Latin music helped rock music through exposure to Latin music and how popular it was during the fiftys .
7. American music has incorporated many elements of the music of Latin America, in popular music as well as in other genres
I didn’t feel like doing number 8, I’m just trying to get threw this as fast as possible.
More than likely, a great deal of the music that you are familiar with is music being produced today. Today’s music, in all its variable forms, can be thought of as popular music. Popular music is any music since industrialization in the mid-1800s that is in line with the tastes and preferences of the middle class. When we break this definition down, we find that popular music encompasses a wide range of music: from rock to rap and from country to heavy metal music. These forms of music have been influenced by many of the same earlier forms of music throughout history. We might also note that popular music today has an economic component. In other words, popular music is often produced and distributed in a way that creates profits for the artists and music companies. This may be tied into areas such as concerts and merchandise, as well as the actual music product.
One type of popular music that we often see around us is pop music. These two terms can be somewhat confusing because of their similarity. While pop music is one example