Big Blog 2: Cuban Music
When deciding what to do my final big blog on, I chose the traditional music of Cuba so that I could research and explore the music of my mom's side of my family. I have grown up listening to all sorts of music, my favorite modern American music genres, Greek music on my dad's side of my family, and then of course traditional Cuban music on my mom's side, so I was very excited to take a deeper look. The traditional music of Cuba is a mixture of influences from different nations. Traditional Cuban music has influences mainly from West Africa, as I learned when writing my blog on salsa, and Spain as well. Cuban music has also influenced many other styles around the globe from Latin America and the Caribbean, and has influenced genres like rhumba, Afro-Cuban jazz, salsa, hip-hip, and soukous. Cuban music is such an amalgamation of different influences, that it is often widely regarded as one of the most acclaimed and enduring styles of music in the world. T...