Bomba And Orquestas Influence On American Music

On April 16, 1971 the famous singer Selena Quintanilla was born and her music became popular and is to this day. When she was growing up she had a talent of singing and dancing and by the age of around 10 she became the lead singer in her family’s band called the Selena Y Los Dinos. From there on out she became a popular singer in the Tejano music. She was known as the “Queen of Tejano”. This affected many people, her music was so great that people liked to dance along with her music. There was people who grew up listening to Selena, an example is me, I grew up listening to her music and loved it. I would listen to her music when I got the chance and just close my eyes and be mesmerized by her music. There are people out there today that when they listen to her music they are affected by her singing and just let go and dance to the rhythm.

Since, some of the songs of Martinez talked about the traditions and values of Mexican culture. While Jorden's songs focused on the lifestyle of around him at that time. Both of the singers created their own unique style of music form by mixing several types of tunes of other forms. Due to his hard work, Martinez was honored with the phrase called "El Hurricane del Valle" as he was really good with swift playing. Eventually, Martinez became the only musician to go outside of Mexico to promote his style of music as other choose to limit themselves by staying in Mexico. On the other hand, Jorden had the ability to play jazz, rock, blues, conjunto and Tejano. Moreover, he was brilliant in playing 35 different instruments and that's the reason why he played most of the instrument sin his songs by himself. This is the reason why, he was known as the "Accordion wizard" and the "Jimi Hendrix of the accordion" because he was brilliant with utilizing electronic effects such as fuzzbox and phase shifter on the squeezebox. Lastly, both musicians were creating their own unique style by mixing other tune styles along with moving forward and spreading the style called conjunto through their music. Nonetheless, Jorden was a little unhappy about people comparing his unique music style with the musician

Selena Quintanilla-Perez was an artist in the Tejano music industry that contributed to revolutionizing the style of music in the United States today. The Tejano music genre is originated from Texas but it may be called Tex-Mex because of its Mexican background. Throughout her career, Selena was not only inspired by Tejano music but created a fusion of musical genres that incorporated other Latin sounds and inevitably won over Latinos across the country. Selena brought the Latino community together with her music. Despite that Selena was an American born Mexicana, she began her career in the Spanish-speaking music industry in a specific genre, Tex-Mex.

One of the greatest idol for this genre is Romeo Santos. “Romeo Santos” also known as Anthony Santos was born in the United States, to a Dominican father and a Puerto Rican mother. Romeo Santos started his career with a group of guys where they called the group Aventura. He was the main songwriter and producer of the group. During his and the group career he decide to make a

Abstract Cultural representation of Latin America in 'Latinoamérica' Cultural representation is hard to pinpoint, but if you define it is people associated to the same culture must have general similarities, to a great extent, mental systems of representing themselves and very similar in symbolic. However, there are different kinds of cultural representation, both regional and continental. Here, we will discuss the continental cultural representation of Latin America. The entire culture of Latin America is too much to discuss so we focus on the message of the song 'Latinoamérica'. The cultural artefact, the song 'Latin America', tells about the culture and problems in Latin America through music.

Living in the twenty-first century where everything is temporary, it is difficult to find any type of art that represents and inspires a group of people. However, for Latinos and Latinas of all ages, Selena Quintanilla became a symbol of the Latin music. Thus, influencing many new artists and other people with her songs and perseverance in life. Born in Lake Jackson, Texas, Selena became the Queen of the Tejano music. Twenty-three years after the death of the young Mexican-American artist, her songs and personality that once defined her continue to influence many Latinos and Latinas.

Selena Quintanilla was a Mexican-American singer that dramatically impacted the world of Tejano music. “Selena transformed Tejano music from a local genre performed on a circuit of small venues into an international form that expressed the aspirations of many in the latino community,” affirms The Nineties in America. She was born on April 16, 1971 in Lake Jackson, Texas and died on March 31, 1995 in Corpus Christi, Texas. The St. James Encyclopedia of Popular Culture states that, “she [Selena] was widely popular with Latino audiences, especially young women, who looked to her as a role model.” Although, Selena had a short life that did not prevent her from becoming a legend.

Harry S Truman was the 33rd president of the United States. He was born on May 8, 1884 in Lamar, Missouri. He was born into the family of Martha Ellen Truman and John Anderson Truman; his father was a mule trader as well as a farmer. Harry was named after his uncle, Harrison Young. After his parents couldn’t decide on a middle name they settled with just the letter “S”. He grew up on his father’s farm in Independence, Missouri and attended Independence High School (now William Chrisman High School). Since he did not attend college, he had several jobs coming out of high school. Truman was known across the nation and world as a successful senator, vice president, and a war-loving president.

As more and more Mexicans came across the border to the U.S., they brought their traditions and culture with them. Mariachi was now a part of this culture all across Mexico. Mariachi music could be found in cafes and public squares all across the Southwest by the 1950’s. Today, it can still be heard in public venues in the Southwest, and it can also be heard at festivals and concerts all across the country. When Linda Ronstadt released an album of mariachi music in 1988, the genre reached nationwide popularity (Sharp, 2004).

Selena’s talent was distributed to a larger audience and was no longer confined to the walls of the family business when Primo Ledesma, a disc jockey, who hosted a weekly Spanish-language radio show, drifted into Papa Gayo’s for a listen. Lesdema recorded Selena singing, telling her father, Abraham, that “she was going places” (Patoski 42). There were numerous responses and intrigues about the new voice that was played when Ledesma broadcasted the tape on his show the following day. The incident with Ledesma was the beginning of the fame Selena would come to know. After Papa Gayo’s was shut down due to foreclosure, the Quintanilla family went bankrupt as well. This hapless circumstance came to be the initiation of Selena’s musical career: Selena recounts, “Basically, my musical career started when my family went bankrupt, and had to resort to music for money” (Patoski 43-45). The Quintanilla children hit the road, performing throughout southern Texas as Selena y Los Dinos with their father Abraham as their manager. Their venues consisted of weddings, cantinas and honky-tonks, and even when the audience was less than ten people, the group never passed up an opportunity to perform; the family’s means of survival lied in those performances (“Selena”).

There are multitudinous types of Chicano music that include all types of instruments, verses, backgrounds, and purposes. According to Tatum (2001), “The popular Hispanic folk music has deep roots in Spain and Mexico, but it is a living cultural form that is forever changing and adapting to new social conditions and musical currents (Robb 1980, 5)” (p.15). Modernization also plays a key role in the diversion of Chicano music. For example, as new instruments were being invented, they were then incorporated into the music, making it sound more different and attractive. The types of Chicano music range from romance which could narrate an event, corridos, which was a form of cultural differentiation, alabanzas, which were specifically religious, and the canción, in which lovers expressed their deep adoration for each other (Tatum 2001). If a man who was lost in his woman’s eyes wanted to choose a song for their

Moreno asserts that ““Too many times, we have read our history books that have been written by Europeans, and it has had a tremendous impact in the way we view our culture and listen to our music. I do think that our identity is lost with it and at some point, we try to find it again later in life” (7). Students are able to see a different point of view rather than only the perspectives of textbook writers who at times deprive students from the full truth and the media who exaggerates or embellishes the truth. Many artists and musicians express their anger and oppression through music and students are able to listen to this and get the complete synopsis of problems happening in the world. For instance, in “The Embodiment of Salsa: Musicians, Instrument and the Performance of a Latina Style and Identity,” Patria Roman-Velasquez argued that the embodiment of salsa develops through specific practices whereby instruments, performance techniques, vocal sounds, bodily movements and ways of dressing are encoded and experienced as part of a particular Latin identity. Therefore, this expressing that music has much of an influence in Latin identity and the construction of identity and

Racial and Social equality is when people of all races are given an equal opportunity, however in The Book “To Kill a Mockingbird” by Harper Lee, we don't see that Racial Equality, but we do see the Injustice and racial problems people had back in the 1930’s. The author shows us and helps us learn about these problems by using different characters that had a different effect on the story. This story is told by a little girl named Scout Finch whose father is a Lawyer who represents Tom Robinson who is accused of Raping and Beating Mayella Ewell, Atticus Finch knowing that he is going to lose the Court Case still tries and doesn't give up because he is trying to change the way people think about Skin Colored People. And he teaches this to his Children who still don't understand what is happening. “Simply because we were licked a hundred years before we started is no reason for us not to try to win”.

Hispanic’s music had a great impact in USA. Nowadays, Americans listen to Hispanics’ music. Hispanics’ music now is part of American’s culture. These changes in USA began around of 19th century, when Hispanics immigration increases in the USA. One of the big changes in music occurred around 1940s, when Americans began to recognize the efforts of Cuban-American musicians. One of the Cuban bands was Cugat. It was known better Orchestra ‘based in New York’s Waldorf Astoria’ which had a great visual and musical style. Another Cuban band was Machito who were dominated as one of the best New York’s scenes at that time. Thanks, to those bans Americans adopted some of Cubans’ dances and performances such as rumba, mambo and cumbia. Americans used and still using the Cuban instruments like bongos and maracas to create their rhythms. Later on, Americans created Jazz by African Americans with the influenced of Cuban’s music.

A forestfire is any uncontrolled fire in combustible vegetation that occurs in the countryside or a wilderness area.[1][2] Other names such as brush fire, bushfire, forest fire, grass fire, hill fire, peat fire, vegetation fire, veldfire, and wildland fire may be used to describe the same phenomenon depending on the type of vegetation being burned. A wildfire differs from other fires by its extensive size, the speed at which it can spread out from its original source, its potential to change direction unexpectedly, and its ability to jump gaps such as roads, rivers and fire breaks.[3] Forest fires are characterized in terms of the cause of ignition, their physical properties such as speed of propagation, the combustible