The term conga refers to the music groups within Cuban comparsas and the music they play. Comparsas are large ensembles of musicians, singers and dancers...
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Music of Cuba (redirect from Grupo de renovación musical)
a musical genre and dance style that developed originally in Cuba. The word "Mambo", similarly to other afroamerican musical denominations as conga, milonga...
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Salsa music (section Musical structure)
Retrieved August 12, 2011. Centro de Investigación de la Música Cubana 1997. Instrumentos de la música folclórico-popular de Cuba v. 1, v. 2. Havana: CIDMUC Gerard...
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Bongo drum (category Cuban musical instruments)
cubano and salsa ensembles, often alongside other drums such as the larger congas and the stick-struck timbales. In these groups, the bongo player is known...
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keystone. It is present in a variety of genres such as Abakuá music, rumba, conga, son, mambo, salsa, songo, timba and Afro-Cuban jazz. The five-stroke clave...
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drums until the early 20th century, when they were replaced by tumbadoras (conga drums). During the genre's recorded history, which began in the 1940s, there...
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Rap, Hip Hop, Funk and Techno Music within a Tropical musical frame of salsa, in which the conga drums and/or timbales drums are the main source of rhythm...
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22, 2009, retrieved August 11, 2014 Isabela de Aranzadi (2009). Instrumentos musicales de las etnias de Guinea Ecuatorial. Apadena. ISBN 978-84-612-0340-6...
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is made of animal skins. The bombo or tambora is the lowest drum used in conga santiaguera, the music of the street carnivals from Santiago de Cuba. They...
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defined by the calendar rather than by any unifying characteristics of musical style or attitude, and is therefore not an era of the same order as the...
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