Afro-Cuban
Diaspora island blend
Afro-Cuban describes the culture, music, and people that blend African and Cuban elements.
The term particularly applies to musical traditions—Afro-Cuban jazz, Afro-Cuban rhythms—that fuse West African percussion and religious practices with Cuban styles: The band played an Afro-Cuban set heavy on congas and timbales.
As a noun, an Afro-Cuban is a Cuban of African descent.
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- rumbaAfro-Cuban partner dance
- sonMale child relation
- mamboFast Cuban ballroom dance
- timbaAfro-Cuban dance fusion genre
conga · bongos · clave · descarga · Celia Cruz · Tito Puente · maracas
Scattered population sharing origins
- heritageInherited cultural legacy
- CongoMajor Central African waterway
- ancestryFamily line of descent
- HavanaCuba's largest city
Santiago · negritude · transatlantic · creole · solar
Facility for wagering
- ColumbiaAmerica personified, or its namesakes
- conga lineSequential dancing procession
- carnivalTraveling amusement attraction
- partneredJoined with another
Syncretic Afro-Cuban religion
- orishaYoruba pantheon spirit
- YorubaNigerian people and language
- syncretismFusion of different beliefs
- collarNeck encirclement
salsa
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timba · conga · bongos · clave · descarga · Celia Cruz · Tito Puente · maracas
diaspora
Scattered population sharing origins
Havana · Santiago · negritude · transatlantic · creole · solar
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Facility for wagering
- ColumbiaAmerica personified, or its namesakes
- conga lineSequential dancing procession
- carnivalTraveling amusement attraction
Santería
Syncretic Afro-Cuban religion
- orishaYoruba pantheon spirit
- YorubaNigerian people and language
- syncretismFusion of different beliefs
- Latin Culturemariachi, salsa dancing, tango, flamenco, cumbia
- peoplesAmericans, British, Chinese, French, Germans
- CubaOld Havana, Guantanamera, sugar cane, cigar, salsa music
- Afro- wordsAfro-Caribbean, Afro-Brazilian, Afro-Latino, Afro-Asian, Afro-European
- Afro-Latin musicsalsa, cumbia, reggae, merengue, bachata
- Black Diasporamotherland, pan-Africanism, Afro-Brazilian, maroons, creole culture
Afro-CubanEuropean
From that continent
white · peninsular · criollo · mestizo
Afro-CubanHispanic
Of Spanish-speaking origin
Iberian · Spanish colonial · European · Western European · peninsular