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SALSA MUSIC & DANCE AROUND THE WORLD

NEW YORK • Puerto Rican sound, smooth, polished, classic

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• Leading Musicians playing NewYorican Salsa: Celia Crus, Willie Colon & Eddie Palmeiri

• Salsa dance style is strongly Puerto Rican influence, with an emphasis on fast flash footwork

SALSA MUSIC & DANCE AROUND THE WORLD

LOS ANGELES • No distinctive salsa music style

• LA style salsa moves are designed to dazzle the spectator, very exciting, sexy, lots of dips & spins

• Couples break away from eachother in the middle of the dance to start “shining” , have their own dance moves

SALSA MUSIC & DANCE AROUND THE WORLDCUBA

• Contemporary salsa sound is called “Timba”

• Its fast tempo salsa with a strong afro-cuban influence

• Songs will start slow, break into a core salsa rhythm, then settle into a beautiful call and response vocal pattern

• Breaks are filled with all different blends, reggae, rap, hip-hop, etc

SALSA MUSIC & DANCE AROUND THE WORLD

COLOMBIA• Hot salsa sound to come out of Columbia is

called “Hard Salsa”

• It’s a fast rhythm and a wicked brass sound

• Leading Musicians: Fruko Y Sus Tesos, Latin Brothers, and Sonora Carruseles

• Dance really close like bodies are glues together

SALSA MUSIC & DANCE AROUND THE WORLD

WEST AFRICA• Whenever the DJ puts on an Africando track, the

dance floor slays

• Contemporary in West Africa is wild, with spacey electric guitar solos and wicked percussian

• Pape Fall & Ricardo Lemvo are leading musicians here

THE HISTORY OF SALSA & TIMBA

• Salsa is one of the most dynamic & important musical phenomena of the 1900s

• Salsa represents a mix of genres, but its primarily component is Cuban dance music

• Timba is a Cuban genre of music, first came around 1989

WHAT IS SALSA?

• Not easily defined, as it did not come from one specific place or person

• It is a combination of multiple roots and cultures as well as creativity of many different people

• Salsa evolved as a distillation of many Latin and Afro-Caribbean dances