page_title: Latin music
hierarchical_section_title: Latin music
caption_attribution_description: English: Argentinian tango in the streets of San Telmo, Buenos Aires
context_page_description: Latin music is a form of popular music played by from Latin America. For practical purposes that includes the Spanish-speaking Caribbean. Much Latin music is accompanied by song in Spanish.
  Latin music is a part of world music, which is the study of popular and traditional music in all countries. Also part of the story is the influence of Latin music in other parts of the world, especially North America.
  In discussing latin music these themes are extremely important:
  Place: the country and sometimes the region of origin.
  The former European colonial power and its policies
  The culture of the former aboriginal inhabitants
  The culture of the slaves brought from Africa
  Musical style. For instance the church music will be different from art music, and different again from popular music. In this article we shall be mostly concerned with popular music.
  So, differences in the music of Peru from that of Brazil are influenced or caused by these differences in their place of origin:
  Peru had few African slaves. Its colonial power was Spain, and its Indian culture was and is quite strong. Most of the population is of Indian descent.
context_section_description: Latin music is a form of popular music played by from Latin America. For practical purposes that includes the Spanish-speaking Caribbean. Much Latin music is accompanied by song in Spanish.
  Latin music is a part of world music, which is the study of popular and traditional music in all countries. Also part of the story is the influence of Latin music in other parts of the world, especially North America.
  In discussing latin music these themes are extremely important:
  Place: the country and sometimes the region of origin.
  The former European colonial power and its policies
  The culture of the former aboriginal inhabitants (the Indian tribes)
  The culture of the slaves brought from Africa
  Musical style. For instance the church music will be different from art music, and different again from popular music. In this article we shall be mostly concerned with popular music.
  So, differences in the music of Peru from that of Brazil are influenced or caused by these differences in their place of origin:
  Peru had few African slaves. Its colonial power was Spain, and its Indian culture was and is quite strong. Most of the population is of Indian descent.
  Brazil had many African slaves, especially in Bahia province, and today has many people of mixed descent. Its colonial power was Portugal, and its people speak Portuguese, not Spanish. It is also geographically a vastly different country from Peru.
caption: Tango
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