Afro-Latin music
Salsa's ancestral roots
Afro-Latin music encompasses musical styles from Latin America and the Caribbean that prominently feature rhythms, instruments, and traditions derived from African cultures brought by enslaved peoples.
This includes genres like salsa, cumbia, son cubano, rumba, merengue, and samba.
The African influence appears most distinctly in complex polyrhythmic patterns, call-and-response vocals, and percussion instruments like congas, bongos, and timbales: The Afro-Latin music scene in New York flourished in the 1970s.
- conga drumsTall Afro-Cuban hand drums
- salsaSpicy tomato condiment
- slave tradeCommerce in human beings
- sambaAfro-Brazilian celebratory dance
- Celia CruzLegendary Cuban salsa vocalist
Cuba · Caribbean heritage · cumbia · timba · clave · bongos · Tito Puente · syncretism · bomba · cajón · rhythm section · Puerto Rico · maracas · Brazil · carnival parade · rumba · bachata · Haiti
Afro-Latin musicambient music
Tonal, moodscape-focused genre
Gregorian chant · plainsong · plainchant · meditation music · march music
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