Talk:Latin American music

"Latin music" as a term?

This might be "Latin music" only to a hispanic living in the US. Might "Hispanic music" be more accurate?

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Hmm. There's a difference between music popular in Central and South America and Central and South American music popular in the United States. I believe the latter is what is meant by Latin music in this article.

I really don't know much about it, but I just dumped a whole bunch of potential links into this article, which was fatally a-historical. I really hope someone will come along who can make this fly. I know the braindump I just did is pretty crude and full of non sequiturs, but I couldn't leave it that it all I run out after Astor Piazzolla and Hector Villa-Lobos and I only know them because they are popular here.

me to give way too much credit to Selena and Jennifer Lopez, but I am not very knowledgeable about the modern scene of Latin-American music or elsewhere.

Also, I like the Puerto Rican article a lot and can see that it will be cool to have similar sections on every nation and culture, but shouldn't those be in addition to a general survey of the field in this article? In other words, some words about Puerto Rican music in the article on Latin American music with a pointer to the full-blown treatment of Puerto Rican music?

Thirdly, I don't see how you could leave Spanish and Portuguese music out of such a survey.

Ortolan88Jun02

My dictionaries say "hispanic" has two meanings (and no, I'm not quoting copyrighted text here verbatim):

 1. Of or related to Spain.

 2. Of or related to people of Latin American descent living in the U.S.

As far as I can tell, this article addresses the rhythms created throughout the Americas south of the U.S. (I hope it does, anyway), so I don't think "hispanic" is the word we're looking for.

I've been a professional musician in the U.S. and Canada for nearly 30 years. When not referring to a specific rhythm (samba, rumba, etc.), the musicians I've known have always used the generic term "Latin" to refer collectively to the rhythms of Latin America. (The usual procedure: Someone says, "Let's play a Latin tune"; then a tune, key, and tempo are picked, and the drummer is trusted to play an appropriate rhythm.)

AnyAvailableName 03Mar08

Rhythm examples?

Since rhythm is such a vivid part of Latin-American music---some would say its most distinguishing characteristic---it'd be great to link to a chart of notated one- or two-bar examples of each major rhythm. I've looked all over the Web and have yet to find something like that, though it seems like such an obviously valuable resource.

I'm a professional music editor (among other things), and would be glad to prepare such a chart if someone would be willing to help me compile the rhythms. Feel free to contact me about this.

AnyAvailableName 03Mar08

introduction

This sentence makes no sense to me whatsoever: "Latin America can be divided into several 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 large and incredible diversity as well as its unique history as a Portuguese colony." I would clean it up, but I really cannot make out the intended meaning. To my knowlege, French is not spoken in Puerto Rico or Cuba. Haiti and the Dominican Republic are not islands, but countries on the same island, Hispañola. As for the second half of the sentence, it loses me completely. It may refer to Brazil ("unique history as a Portuguese colony"). I will strike the sentence completely, unless someone knows what the intended meaning was, and can clear it up. Hraesvelgr (talk) 18:45, 1 February 2008 (UTC)

Suspicious Dominican text removed

I'm a great believer in the role of original research in Wikipedia, but the following removed from the Dominican section was just a little too original and a little not enough research (emphasis added):

It quickly became popular in The Dominican Republic because all they had for music was barking dogs and chirping birds. The new sound of Hesparo led to a rebirth of Dominican culture and many albums were put out by famous artists from The Dominican Republic including: [1]Milli Vanilli and The Zombie Nations.

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This page is not watched, and is constantly modified by original research

Can an administrator adept in musicology please watch this page? The past day or two has seen a ton of original research. Sometimes, no one pays attention when it is written coherently, even though it can be totally false.--99.132.143.69 (talk) 02:04, 20 August 2009 (UTC)

What about URUGUAY?!

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Latin america,is a clouster of music used sometimes for tribal beats in south america. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 82.71.216.23 (talk) 14:20, 3 May 2011 (UTC)

Guatemala???

Why is Guatemala the only country left out? This needs to be fixed. Bolivia13 (talk) 14:50, 5 January 2012 (UTC)