Talk:Latin American music
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[edit] "Latin music" as a term?
This might be "Latin music" only to a hispanic living in the US. Might "Hispanic music" be more accurate?
Hmm. There's a difference between music popular in Central and South America and Central and South American music popular in the United States. I believe the latter is what is meant by Latin music in this article.
I really don't know much about it, but I just dumped a whole bunch of potential links into this article, which was fatally a-historical. I really hope someone will come along who can make this fly. I know the braindump I just did is pretty crude and full of non sequiturs, but I couldn't leave it that it all started with Selena. Ortolan88June02.
I really don't care for the first sentence. It sounds as if Latin music depends on what's heard in the US. As a long-term resident of two Latin countries, I'm rather offended and I think the Latins of Carribean, Central and South America would be, too. I guess we can omit Spain and Portugal.
I'd be glad to take up Ortolan88's challenge by covering the topic geographically with references from this page.
Sorry, Mav! I didn't see your note until after Puerto Rico/Music was written; is it easier just to change to title or to just cut and paste text into one of the links you suggested.
I'm sorry too, Mav. I didn't write that very first sentence.
I didn't say, or mean to say, that latin music depends only on what is important in the US. I said that there were
- categories or genres of American music that were derived from or represented Latin music and
- then there was also the whole wide world of Latin music proper.
I am a little bit competent on the first, completely out of my depth on the second. I run out after Astor Piazzolla and Hector Villa-Lobos and I only know them because they are popular here.
I plead that I left the article better than I found it. All it talked about before was the last five years and US only. I only wrote what I did here to try to get folks off the dime. Please read it again.
I do think the Latin influence on American music is an important part of the story and I look forward to everyone's filling me in on the rest. Ortolan88
Sorry yet again! I just realized you meant the first sentence of the entry, not the first sentence of the talk! I didn't write it and I tend not to take over articles when I add to them, but I agree, so I'll just delete it myself.Ortolan88
I know nothing but... Where does Gloria Estefan and the Miami Sound Machine fit in? Certainly influential. Maybe Jon Secada? Baha Men? Tito Puentes? Los Lobos? Julio and Enrique Iglesias??? ---rmhermen
The final paragraphs in the US section seem to me to give way too much credit to Selena and Jennifer Lopez, but I am not very knowledgeable about the modern scene of Latin-American music or elsewhere.
Also, I like the Puerto Rican article a lot and can see that it will be cool to have similar sections on every nation and culture, but shouldn't those be in addition to a general survey of the field in this article? In other words, some words about Puerto Rican music in the article on Latin American music with a pointer to the full-blown treatment of Puerto Rican music?
Thirdly, I don't see how you could leave Spanish and Portuguese music out of such a survey.
Ortolan88Jun02
why the people of america use the expression "matin music" only for musi of latin america (and usually with exclusion of argentinian, wich is considered "too european") ?! This confusion spred the idea in all the world that latin music is only some "tropical music", and that the latin cultures have necessary something to see with a "cliché" of tropical landscapes, brown people, hot food and afric
why the people of america use the expression "latin music" only for the music of latin america (and usually with exclusion of argentinian, wich is considered "too european") ?! This confusion spred the idea in all the world that latin music is only some "tropical music", and that the latin cultures have necessary something to see with a "cliché" of tropical landscapes, brown people, hot food and african rythms... It is really a short view ! the latin countries share two continents, with a large variety of local cultures, musics, climates, architectures, etc... I'm Italian, for us it is choking to see some cubans claiming that they are doing latin music and saynig that my italian music is not latin, while I'm direct descent of the anciant latins..!!
Latin music is very diverse, with the only truly unifying thread being the use of the Spanish language or, in Brazil, its close cousin the Portuguese language
Isn't that a fancy way of saying there is no unifying thread?
[edit] "Real Latin" Music
I searched for "latin music" and was forwarded here. That's fine, I get your point, but shouldn't there be one line at the top saying, "if you're looking for music in the ancient Roman dialect, click here." Cf. I majored in Latin Teaching and minored in Spanish Teaching, and when introducing myself in either class, I would offend everyone by saying "I'm majoring in real Latin and minoring in fake Latin." PS I'm Cuban, I can say that. --Mrcolj 13:13, 30 August 2006 (UTC)
