Music of El Salvador
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| Music of El Salvador Topics | |
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| Cumbia | |
| Merengue | Rock |
| Reggaeton | Hip hop |
| Bachata | Indigenous |
| Jazz | Funk |
| Ska | Reggae |
| Latin Jazz | Electronic |
| Son | Latin Power |
| Folklorico | Trova |
| Pop Latino | Electronica |
| Nueva canción | |
| Timeline and Samples | |
| Central American music | |
| Belize - Costa Rica - El Salvador - Guatemala - Honduras - Nicaragua - Panama | |
El Salvador is a Central American country whose culture is a mixture of Mayan,Pipil and Spanish. Its music includes religious songs (mostly Roman Catholic) used to celebrate Christmas and other holidays, especially feast days of the saints. Satirical and rural lyrical themes are common. Popular styles in modern El Salvador include salsa, cumbia, hip hop and reggaeton.
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[edit] Traditional Music
Native Salvadoran music draws from the musical traditions of the various indigenous cultures of the region, including those whose presence in the area dates to before the 16th century Spanish conquest and colonization of Central America. In the pre-Columbian era, the territory defined by the modern state of El Salvador was at the southern periphery of the Mesoamerican culture area, and several of the pre-Columbian cultures had fluctuating levels of influence and participation in a number of shared cultural traits (particularly during portions of the Classic and Postclassic periods of Mesoamerican chronology. Little detail is known about the folk music of these peoples prior to European contact.
By the time of the Spanish arrival, cultural (and by extension, musical) influences included traditions relating to Maya cultural practices. The largest contact-era group in the Salvadoran region were the Pipils, whose language (Pipil) was related to Nahuatl, the lingua franca of the central Mexican Nahuatl confederacy. Others included the Lenca, Kekch'i,Qui'che, Pok'omame and Ch'orti'.
Pipil and Maya music relied on instruments such as drums, rattles, marimba and flutes.
After the colony of New Spain was established, European classical music and Spanish music mixed with native styles.
One notable contemporary Indian music group is Talticpac, which means in Nahuatl "above the Earth".
[edit] Popular music
Popular music in El Salvador uses marimba tehpe'ch, flutes, drums, scrapers and gourds, as well more recently imported guitars and other instruments. Cuban, Colombian and Mexican music has infiltrated the country, especially ranchera, salsa and cumbia.
Political chaos tore the country apart in the early 20th century, and music was often suppressed, especially those with strong native influences. In the 1940's, for example, it was decreed that a dance called "Xuc" was to be the "national dance"'which was created and led by Paquito Palaviccini's and his "ORQUESTA INTERNACIONAL POLIO." That was one of the many orchestras he led during and in the mid 40's, his other hit was knowned through out the country; " Carnaval En San Miguel" was commonly knowed to the whole country; the first salvadorean-central american band; that lead to numerous awards in the years to come;Paquito Palaviccini, being knowned throughout central and southern america, tours were made to cuba, buenos aires;where Paquito Studied, and other latin america countrys. The inspiration came to Paquito to develop " the Xuc" and " El Baile del torito." in a tour they had in Cuba;. The 1960s saw an influx of American and British pop and rock, inspiring like-minded Salvadoran bands, while the following two decades were dominated by a wave of popular genres from across Latin America, mostly folk-based singer-songwriter genres like Chilean nueva canción. This new type of Salvadoran rock music was called "Guanarock" (portmanteau of Guanaco(an andean closelly related animal to the Llama and the Alpaca, a misgiven name by the Spanish for a person from El Salvador), which inspired bands such as Ayutush.
Dominican merengue and bachata also became very popular. In the last ten years, hip hop and reggaeton has influenced the majority of the Salvadoran youth, which has formed groups like Pescozada and Mecate.
Salvadoran cumbia is related to but very distinct from Colombian cumbia, which is much more well known outside of El Salvador. Chanchona ensembles, led by a pair or a single violin, are popular, especially among the immigrant community in the Washington D.C. area.
There is also a budding electronic dance music scene in El Salvador with strong exponents like Ofo Nuñez, Ettore Lentini, FerK, Obd Prza (A.K.A Revnoise) and Luis Andino (A.K.A Electrobotica) who have been involved in promoting the electronic culture in the country.
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[edit] References
[edit] External links
- El sitio de musica de El Salvador (The El Salvador Music Site) – Spanish
- Cutumay Camones from El Salvador
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