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História. A história do mambo moderno tem início em 1937 quando os irmãos Cachão escreveram uma dança (estilo com origens na contradança espanhola e a contradança francesa) chamada "Mambo", com o uso de ritmos derivados da música africana. A contradança chegou a Cuba no século XVIII, onde se tornou conhecida como danza.
Venezuela. v. t. e. Mambo is a genre of Cuban dance music pioneered by the charanga Arcaño y sus Maravillas in the late 1930s and later popularized in the big band style by Pérez Prado. It originated as a syncopated form of the danzón, known as danzón-mambo, with a final, improvised section, which incorporated the guajeos typical of son ...
- Origins
- Early 20th Century
- 1920s
- Trío Matamoros
- 1930s
- 1940s
- Current State of The Son
Although the history of Cuban music dates back to the 16th century, the son is a relatively recent musical invention whose precursors emerged in the mid-to-late 19th century. Historically, most musicologists have supported the hypothesis that the direct ancestors (or earliest forms) of the son appeared in Cuba's Oriente Province, particularly in mo...
The emergence of son significantly increased the interaction of cultures derived from Africa and Spain. A large number of former black slaves, recently liberated after the abolition of slavery in 1886 went to live in the slums "solares" of low class neighborhoods in Havana, and numerous laborers also arrived from all over the country and some rural...
In 1920, the Cuarteto Oriental became a sextet and was renamed as Sexteto Habanero. This group established the "classical" configuration of the son sextet composed of guitar, tres, bongos, claves, maracas and double bass.The sextet members were: Guillermo Castillo (conductor, guitar and second voice), Gerardo Martínez (first voice), Felipe Neri Cab...
The presence of the Trío Matamorosin the history of Cuban son is so important that it deserves a separate section. Its development constitutes an example of the process that the trovadores usually followed until they became soneros. The Trío was founded by Miguel Matamoros (vocals and first guitar), who was born in Santiago de Cuba (Oriente) in 189...
By the late 1930s, the heyday of "Classic son" had largely ended. The sextetos and septetos that had enjoyed wide commercial popularity increasingly lost ground to jazz bands and amplified conjuntos.The very music that son had helped to create was now replacing son as the more popular and most requested music in Cuba. Original son conjuntos were fa...
In the 1940s, Arsenio Rodríguez became the most influential player of son. He used improvised solos, toques, congas, extra trumpets, percussion and pianos, although all these elements had been used previously ("Papauba", "Para bailar son montuno"). Beny Moré (known as El Bárbaro del Ritmo, "The Master of Rhythm") further evolved the genre, adding g...
At present, the traditional-style son is seldom heard but has been assimilated into other genres and is present in them. Thus, other types of popular Cuban music and other Latinstyles of music continue using the essential style of the son. Another important contribution of the son was the introduction of the drum to mainstream music. The increase i...
Cha-cha-chá ( Spanish pronunciation: [ˌtʃa ˌtʃa ˈtʃa]) is a genre of Cuban music. It has been a popular dance music which developed from the Danzón-mambo in the early 1950s, and became widely popular throughout the world.
The Black Mamba is a Portuguese band. [1] They represented Portugal in the Eurovision Song Contest 2021 in Rotterdam with the song "Love Is on My Side". [2] [3] The band has released three albums: The Black Mamba (2010), Dirty Little Brother (2014) and The Mamba King (2018). [4]
Bachata arose in the poor and working class areas of the country. During the 1960s and early 1970s, while bachata was known as amargue music, it was seen as music of the lower class by middle-upper-class Dominicans. The genre's popularity rose in the 1980s and early 1990s when the rhythm began to reach the mainstream media.
Mambo. This Afro-Cuban dance genre was quite popular during the 1940s and became part of the big band sound of the 1950s. It was performed by the Cuban conjunto, which included an ensemble of voice, trumpets, and rhythm sections. The rhythm sections would include a bass, conga drum, and timbale or cowbell. Rhythmic content of the mambo varied ...
