Canción is a genre of Latin American music that was popular in the first half of the 20th century. It is characterized by its lyrical, Italianate qualities. The canción is divided nearly always in long stanzas with the same number of verses. Latin American music, is sometimes called Latin music. ...

"Canción" means song in Spanish. In the Renaissance, the term was often used interchangeably with cantiga, cantar, canson, and sometimes villancico; it was related to the chanson of the Franco-Flemish school. Canción was the least specific term to cover all the popular, secular styles of vocal music of Spain at the time. In Spanish-language concerts and recordings, when the title of a particular song does not belong to a danceable genre (such as son in Cuba, or chacarera in Argentina, its genre is mentioned as "canción". Renaissance music is classical music written during the Renaissance period, approximately 1400 to 1600 CE. Defining the end of the period is easier than defining the beginning, since there were no revolutionary shifts in musical thinking at the beginning of the 15th century corresponding to the sudden development of the... Chanson is a French word for song, and in English-language contexts is often applied to any song with French words, particularly a cabaret song. ... Son can refer to various things: A male direct descendant If referring to the Korean branch of Buddhism, see Seon Son, a commune in the Ardennes département in France A town within the municipality of Son en Breugel, in the Netherlands A town in the municipality of Vestby, Norway, see... Chacarera is a dance originated in Santiago del Estero Province, Argentina. ...

See nueva canción ("new song") for a Latin American movement of the 1960s. The Canto Nuevo or Nueva Canción is a form of folk music that developed in South America. ... Latin America consists of the countries of South America and some of North America (including Central America and some the islands of the Caribbean) whose inhabitants mostly speak Romance languages, although Native American languages are also spoken. ...