Music+&+Dance-Cuba

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 * A carnival is celebrated in July to mark the anniversary of Fidel Castro's first rebellion in 1953.[[image:http://www.pulp.co.nz/images-listings/original/OUQfqobxlI6hzNkmszHydnCubaCarn1.jpg width="163" height="99" align="right"]]
 * Guitars, double basses, and trumpets are the most common instruments in Cuba.
 * Musicians perform traditional son music in Havana. Son music combines lively rhythms and classical guitar playing.
 * Cuba has 5 genres of Afro-Cuban music. Son, rumba, danzon, cancion Cubana, and punto guarjira.
 * Bongo drums, Conga drums, Timbales, Tambourines, Maracas, Shekere, and Claves are some of the many instruments that the Cubans use.
 * Cuban bands usually have at least one guitar in it.
 * The Cubans first composer was ignacio Cervantes ( 1847-1905).
 * The Topicana in Havana is the most famous Nightclub in Cuba.
 * Cuban Music have African and Spanish Roots in it.
 * The Band Los Van Van created their own sounds called Songo.
 * Songo is with trombones, and violins with Jazz harmonies and a call-and-response lyrics.

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 * They want to show what they can do.
 * Created the rumba, the mambo, the cha-cha, and the salsa.
 * The style of music is African style. They dance to maracas, guitars, and basses.
 * Ballet is highly regarded.
 * The link between religion, music, and dance is in the Rumba
 * Cuban rythms influenced jazz.
 * Salsa music is derived from Son and was brought by the cubans to America.
 * Rumba, Conga and Mambo are Afro- Cuban dance forms.media type="youtube" key="wb35M43Kcds" height="405" width="500"