MUSC 2270 Lecture Notes - Lecture 21: Pelvic Thrust, Maraca, Claves
28 Mar 2017
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Salsa is a spanish music even though it came out of ny city. 3rd note clave is delayed a bit. Hear 3 beats followed by 2 beats still. Clave, leader (canto), leader & chorus (montuno), congas (drums), palitos (sticks that create ostinato pattern), small drums are bongos. Male-conquest dance, she evades, interplay of drums (between each other), and dancers: 5 themes continued . Music practiced by men, not women; oppression of women. Banned/limited in the late 1800s: bomba dance: puerto rico. Bomba danced to mark specific ceremonies like wedding or harvest. Generic name that encompasses many different rhythms. Ensemble includes a dancer, 1st drummer, 2nd drummer and 3rd drummer drummer. Sticks (kud), maracas, singers in a chorus. Extreme interaction between drummers and dancers, drummers challenging dancers with difficult rhythms: merengue: dominican republic. Sections: merengue (1-2) beat, jaleo (=montuno) call +response. External politics: originally low-class, claimed as dr national identity (iberian) against haiti (african)
