Latin
American music, sometimes simply called Latin music, includes the music of many
countries and comes in many varieties, from the simple, rural 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
canción movement. Latin music is very diverse, with the only truly unifying
thread being the use of the Spanish language, or the Portuguese language, in Brazil.Latin
America can be divided into several musical areas. Andean music, for example,
includes the countries of western South America, typically Peru, Bolivia, Argentina,
Ecuador, Chile and Venezuela; Central American music includes El Salvador, Belize,
Nicaragua, Panama, Guatemala, Honduras, and Costa Rica. Caribbean music includes
many Spanish and French-speaking islands in the Caribbean Sea, including Haiti,
the Dominican Republic, Cuba, Puerto Rico, Martinique and Guadeloupe, though the
Francophone islands are mistakenly not usually considered Latin even though they
derive from Latin heritages just as their Spanish and Portuguese cousins. Brazil
perhaps constitutes its own musical area, both because of its large size and incredible
diversity as well as its unique history as a Portuguese colony. Although Spain
isn't a part of Latin America, Spanish music (and Portuguese 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.
Latin
music includes the music of many countries and comes in many varieties usually
with a defined beat .
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