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Latin music - Definition and Overview |
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Latin American music, or the music of Latin America, is sometimes called Latin music. It includes the music of many countries and comes in many varieties, from the down-home conjunto music of Northern Mexico to the sophisticated habanera of Cuba, from the symphonies of Heitor Villa-Lobos to the simple and moving Andean flute.
Music has played an important part in Latin America's turbulent recent history, for example the nueva cancion movement.
Although Spain isn't a part of Latin America, Spanish music and Latin American music strongly cross-fertilized each other, but Latin music also absorbed influences from English and American music, and particularly, African music.
For an analysis of Latin music by country see:
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Example Usage of Latin |
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RoxxiBlu: lmfao its funny how @IamSpectacular's name in pig Latin is ESTACULARSPAY lmfao haha [no diss] |
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