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Encyclopedia > Conga (music)
Music of Cuba
Batá and yuka drums - Chachachá - Changuí - Charanga - Conga - Danzón - Descarga - Guajira - Guaracha - Habanera - Jazz - Hip hop - Mambo - Música campesina - Nueva trova - Pilón - Rumba - Salsa cubana - Son - Son montuno - Timba
History (Timeline and Samples)
Awards Beny Moré Award
Festivals Cuba Danzon, Percuba
National anthem "La Bayamesa"

Conga music is a style of Cuban music used to dance Conga. The Caribbean island of Cuba has been influential in the development of multiple musical styles in the 19th and 20th centuries. ... The batá is a double-headed drum shaped like an hourglass with one cone larger than the other. ... For the dance, see Cha-cha-cha (dance). ... Changui is a style of Cuban music which originated in the early 19th century in the eastern region of Guantánamo Province. ... A charanga is a Cuban orchestra composed of piano, strings, vocals, flute and Cuban musical style characterized by this kind of orchestration. ... Danzon is the official music of Cuba, and derives from a European-influenced ballroom dance played by Cuban charangas. ... Roberto Fazz. ... Guajira is a style of Cuban acoustic music. ... Guaracha derived from the fusion of a vast cloud of rhythms during the mid 1950s in Cuba. ... Habanera is an adjective meaning from Havana (also known as La Habana), Cuba. ... Latin jazz is the general term given to music that combines rhythms from African and Latin American countries with jazz harmonies from the United States. ... Hip hop arrived in Cuba via radio and TV broadcasts from Miami. ... This article is about Mambo dance and musical style. ... Nueva trova was a movement in Cuban music that emerged in the mid-1960s. ... Rumba is both a family of music rhythms and a dance style that originated in Africa and traveled via the slave trade to Cuba and the New World. ... Salsa Dance is the name given in New York to Casino Dance, developed in Havana in the early 1960s. ... 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... Arsenio Rodríguez initially developed son montuno from son. ... Timba is the Cuban variant of salsa music, and is often understood to be a sub-category of salsa. ... Categories: Substubs | Timelines of music | Cuban music ... A music festival is a festival that presents a number of musical performances usually tied together through a theme or genre. ... A national anthem is a generally patriotic musical composition that is formally recognized by a countrys government as their states official national song. ... La Bayamesa (The Bayamo Song) is the national anthem of Cuba. ... The Caribbean island of Cuba has been influential in the development of multiple musical styles in the 19th and 20th centuries. ... The conga is a Latin American carnival march that became popular in the United States in the 1930s and 1950s, and was originated by African slaves doing the dance while chained together, and has important associations with Afro-Cuban Santería religion. ...


See also: Conga. Conga is a drum, a type of music, and a type of dance (Conga Line). ...


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Conga - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (1188 words)
The conga is a tall, narrow, single-headed Cuban drum of African origin, probably derived from the Congolese Makuta drums.
Congas are now very common in Latin music, including salsa music, as well as many other forms of American popular music.
Music of Puerto Rico refers to the drums only as congas, but gives the names as tumba for the largest, niño for the smallest, and does not provide names for the two middle drums.
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