Songo
Songo es un estilo de música y danza cubana que surgió a finales de los años 60 y principios de los 70. Une ritmos afrocubanos con influencias modernas como el funk, el rock y el jazz.
Orígenes
- Desarrollado por Los Van Van, liderado por el bajista Juan Formell y el baterista/percusionista José Luis "Changuito" Quintana.
- Evolucionó como una modernización del son, la rumba, y otras tradiciones cubanas, utilizando nuevos conceptos rítmicos e instrumentación.
Ritmo
- Construido sobre la clave afrocubana, pero más flexible que el son tradicional o el mambo"> mambo.
- La batería se convirtió en central, fusionándose con las congas, timbales y bongos.
- Changuito fue pionero en la "percusión timba"> timba", mezclando contratiempos de funk con tumbaos cubanos y patrones de cascara.
Características Musicales
- Líneas de bajo eléctrico sincopadas (en lugar de contrabajo).
- Uso de sintetizadores e instrumentos eléctricos junto a la percusión tradicional.
- Voces de llamada y respuesta, riffs de trompeta, y un fuerte sentimiento de baile.
Danza
- La danza songo es más libre que las danzas cubanas más antiguas.
- Presenta movimientos de cadera y pasos influenciados por la rumba y el son pero más sueltos, diseñados para el sentimiento pesado del groove de la música.
Influencia
- Sentó las bases para la timba, el estilo dominante de música de baile cubana desde los años 90 en adelante.
- Influenció la salsa, la fusión de jazz, y la música afrolatina contemporánea en todo el mundo.
A Cuban popular dance music genre that emerged in the 1980s–90s
- emerged in the 1980s–90s
- influenced by songo, rumba, funk, blues, jazz, pop, rock and Afro-Cuban rhythms.
- Known for complex rhythm shifts, aggressive bass lines, and high energy that push dancers to improvise.
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In Cuban music, especially in salsa and son,
the " mambo" section typically refers to a brassy, rhythmically intense instrumental break,
often featuring repetitive horn lines, call-and-response patterns, and building energy toward the climax of a song.
Mambo
In Cuban music, especially in salsa and son,
the "mambo" section typically refers to a brassy, rhythmically intense instrumental break,
often featuring repetitive horn lines, call-and-response patterns, and building energy toward the climax of a song.
Son dance is the foundation of all Cuban popular partner dancing — smooth, intimate, grounded, and musical. Every Cuban dance style that followed ( mambo"> mambo, casino, timba"> timba) builds on the body vocabulary and structure established by son.
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The bongo is a pair of small open-bottomed drums played with fingers and palms. It originated in eastern Cuba and became one of the defining percussion voices of son and timba"> timba.
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The conga (also called tumbadora) is the primary hand drum of Cuban music and the rhythmic backbone of timba"> timba, son, rumba, and salsa.
Lees meer >The timbales (pailas criollas) are a pair of shallow, metal-shell drums mounted on a stand, played with wooden sticks. They are the rhythmic engine of charanga orchestras and play a critical role in timba"> timba.
Lees meer >The timbales (pailas criollas) are a pair of shallow, metal-shell drums mounted on a stand, played with wooden sticks. They are the rhythmic engine of charanga orchestras and play a critical role in timba"> timba.
Lees meer >The trumpet has been central to Cuban popular music since the 1920s, when it became the lead melodic voice of the son septeto — the "seventh voice" that transformed the ensemble.
Lees meer >Son dance is the foundation of all Cuban popular partner dancing — smooth, intimate, grounded, and musical. Every Cuban dance style that followed ( mambo"> mambo, casino, timba"> timba) builds on the body vocabulary and structure established by son.
Lees meer >Danza is the evolutionary step between contradanza and danzón — Cuba's first true couple's dance, more intimate and more African in character than the European formations it replaced.
Lees meer >Mambo was Cuba's first global music explosion — the form that put Cuban rhythms on dance floors from New York to Tokyo in the late 1940s and 1950s, and the direct ancestor of the Latin big band sound.
Lees meer >Timba is the music this site is dedicated to exploring. It emerged as a distinct genre in the late 1980s and crystallized in the early 1990s — born in a moment of social crisis, built on the full accumulated history of Cuban music, and still evolving today.
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