Early Cuban bands played popular music for dances and theatres during the period 1780–1930. During this period Cuban music became creolized, and its European and African origins gradually changed to become genuinely Cuban. Instrumentation and music continually developed during this period. The information listed here is in date order, and comes from whatever records survive to the present day.
EarlyCubanbands played popular music for dances and theatres during the period 1780–1930. During this period Cuban music became creolized, and its European...
Europe. Examples include rhumba, Afro-Cuban jazz, salsa, soukous, many West African re-adaptations of Afro-Cuban music (Orchestra Baobab, Africando), Spanish...
development of big bands and combos on the island. These bands consisted of a relatively small horn section, piano, double bass, a full array of Cuban percussion...
lighter and somewhat more elegant sound of the charanga emerged (see EarlyCubanbands). Initially, they were small orchestra of two violins, a cello, flute...
music from Mexico with over 60 years of history. Modeled after an earlierCubanband called Sonora Matancera, the Sonora Santanera was founded in 1955...
lead to the Cuban Exodus as Cubans fled the island with the majority arriving in the United States. The revolution also heralded an era of Cuban intervention...
in Cuba for over fifty years." Similarly, Tito Puente stated: "The only salsa I know is sold in a bottle called ketchup. I play Cuban music. Cuban musicologist...
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Cuba is controlled by state-owned Cubatabaco. The Cuban cigar is also referred to as El Habano. Cubatabaco and Habanos SA – held equally by the Cuban...
Rumba is a secular genre of Cuban music involving dance, percussion, and song. It originated in the northern regions of Cuba, mainly in urban Havana and...
rock bands Urgent and Diving for Pearls. Vazquez was born in Cuba on March 18, 1965 and came to the United States with his family as part of the Cuban Exodus...
began incorporating Afro-Cuban rhythmic motifs in the 1800s with the popularity of the Cuban contradanza (known outside of Cuba as the habanera). The habanera...
northern Cuba, and by the late 19th century it was used to denote the complex of secular music styles known as Cuban rumba. Since the early 20th century...
composed by Cuban-born Mario Bauza and recorded by Machito and his Afro-Cubans in New York City. "Tanga" began as a spontaneous descarga (Cuban jam session)...
Cubans (Spanish: Cubanos) are people from Cuba or people with Cuban citizenship. Cuba is a multi-ethnic nation, home to people of different ethnic, religious...
used by American rock critics in the early 1970s to describe the mid-1960s garage bands. Certain late 1960s and early 1970s Detroit acts, such as MC5 and...
Los Frikis or the Frikis is a Cuban punk subculture that originated in the 1980s. As Cuban radio stations rarely played rock music, Frikis often listened...
Timba is a Cuban genre of music based on Cuban son with salsa, American Funk/R&B and the strong influence of Afro-Cuban folkloric music. Timba rhythm sections...
American music began incorporating Afro-Cuban musical motifs in the nineteenth century, when the habanera (Cuban contradanza) gained international popularity...
novelty lyrics. Boogaloo was the only Cuban-style rhythm which occasionally acquired English lyrics. Established Cuban-influenced orchestras also recorded...
for African popular music. Cuban music has been popular in Sub-Saharan Africa since the mid-twentieth century. It was Cuban music, more than any other...
"Cubop", short for Cuban bebop. During its first decades, the Afro-Cuban jazz movement was stronger in the United States than in Cuba. According to bassist...