Olivia Liopiros Musical Journey

     Salsa is best described as a Latin American dance music genre. While it is described vaguely as Latin American music, its roots are believed to come from several places. Most heavily influenced by Cuban music culture, when inspecting the music you can see pieces of Cuban, Peurto Rican, and African styles. Most salsa songs are a combination of different elements of things like guaracha, a Cuban music genre with rapid temp, or bomba and plena, Puerto Rican dance music. Salsa is very heavily influenced by Cuban culture and music. The first “self-identified” salsa bands were predominantly Cuban and Puerto Rican. For the most part the bands started to arise in New York in the 1970’s.   The origin of the name salsa is frequently argued over as it is not certain where it came from. There are many theories and ideas but no one is for sure, and everyone thinks they are right. One theory of the origin of the name was from Ignacio Piñeiro’s song Échale salsita in 1...

In music, along with nearly everything else, there are these gender roles that say what women and men tend to lean towards more regarding style or taste. I cannot tell if my own opinion on what gender roles in music is accurate all the time or just what has been true for my own experiences. Generally I think of when we were younger, it was always the girls that wanted to sing; very rarely did the boys want to sing like at church or at school for a play or something like that. Also in high school, while I was never in band or theatre, I did go to concerts or musicals to support my friends, and what I noticed then was that theatre was very heavy in girls whereas band had more boys. Maybe that was just my school though.  Whe n I think of a band, I always think about all men. Very rarely can I think of seeing a woman playing on a band, and I could not think of one single all girl band so I googled it and only recognized The Go-Go's... which makes me really upset actually that there are...