The Article (for real)
Today I'm sitting down to write this article. At least for now, I will only write about one topic from one of my last post which is "The Origin of Our Salsa Roots," so here goes nothing.
Latinx folks are known for a few stereotypical things—being loud, partying hard, dancing. While sometimes these stereotypes can be harmful, most people prefer to fully embrace them, along with their culture and roots.
Part of being Hispanic or Latinx lies in knowing about music and dances and being able to move to any possible rhythm thrown at you, but even with our vast knowledge on these topics, most of the time we don’t know the history behind them.
Salsa is one of the most famous dances in Latin culture; throughout all its years, it has managed to prevail and expand further than South and Central America—it ya managed to reach places where the population’s national language isn’t even Spanish.
The dance originates from Cuba in the early 1900s. Before the new style emerged, Cuba was mainly known for Cuba son and Afro-Cuban rumba: two of the main styles that were combined (song with a few other factors) to create the fun and flows dance that we now know as salsa.
Many artists of the time fell in love with salsa and recorded and released several songs—within these people was the legendary Celia Cruz, who made a name for herself with salsa.
Nowadays, there are many different styles of the dance—Rueda de Casino, New York Style, Afro-Cuban Style, Salsa Casino, and many more—but they all essentially share the same moves and roots.
But salsa in itself isn't just a dance; it's the music. Salsa is both the moves and the music that it originated from. Every song relies on a wide range of all types of instruments that comprise them; bass, electric and regular guitars, maracas, pianos, violins, trombones, bongos, congas, cowbells--you name it.
Mainly in places like Miami or New York is where you can find salsa professional dancers, but they're all over the world. The dance itself is said to be easy to learn, but yet extremely difficult to master given its several steps and moves and styles and patterns.
Salsa is such a vital factor of Latin and Hispanic culture that there are even dance competitions all over the world that dancer train years for in order to win.
For example the World Latin Dance Cup, the World Salsa Summit, the World Salsa Open, the Mayan World Salsa Championships, and more.
Many salsa dancers have even performed in incredibly famous TV shows like Dancing with the Stars and won, such as Brooke Burke.
To us Latinx people, salsa is so important that a lot of parents teach their children how to dance it at an early age, sometimes even putting them in professional classes.
It's a dance/music style that captures the essence of our roots and culture and that will continue to thrive throughout history as long as we continue to keep it alive.
It's important to know where the things we love come from and their history and salsa is just another one of those things.
Latinx folks are known for a few stereotypical things—being loud, partying hard, dancing. While sometimes these stereotypes can be harmful, most people prefer to fully embrace them, along with their culture and roots.
Part of being Hispanic or Latinx lies in knowing about music and dances and being able to move to any possible rhythm thrown at you, but even with our vast knowledge on these topics, most of the time we don’t know the history behind them.
Salsa is one of the most famous dances in Latin culture; throughout all its years, it has managed to prevail and expand further than South and Central America—it ya managed to reach places where the population’s national language isn’t even Spanish.
The dance originates from Cuba in the early 1900s. Before the new style emerged, Cuba was mainly known for Cuba son and Afro-Cuban rumba: two of the main styles that were combined (song with a few other factors) to create the fun and flows dance that we now know as salsa.
Many artists of the time fell in love with salsa and recorded and released several songs—within these people was the legendary Celia Cruz, who made a name for herself with salsa.
Nowadays, there are many different styles of the dance—Rueda de Casino, New York Style, Afro-Cuban Style, Salsa Casino, and many more—but they all essentially share the same moves and roots.
But salsa in itself isn't just a dance; it's the music. Salsa is both the moves and the music that it originated from. Every song relies on a wide range of all types of instruments that comprise them; bass, electric and regular guitars, maracas, pianos, violins, trombones, bongos, congas, cowbells--you name it.
Mainly in places like Miami or New York is where you can find salsa professional dancers, but they're all over the world. The dance itself is said to be easy to learn, but yet extremely difficult to master given its several steps and moves and styles and patterns.
Salsa is such a vital factor of Latin and Hispanic culture that there are even dance competitions all over the world that dancer train years for in order to win.
For example the World Latin Dance Cup, the World Salsa Summit, the World Salsa Open, the Mayan World Salsa Championships, and more.
Many salsa dancers have even performed in incredibly famous TV shows like Dancing with the Stars and won, such as Brooke Burke.
To us Latinx people, salsa is so important that a lot of parents teach their children how to dance it at an early age, sometimes even putting them in professional classes.
It's a dance/music style that captures the essence of our roots and culture and that will continue to thrive throughout history as long as we continue to keep it alive.
It's important to know where the things we love come from and their history and salsa is just another one of those things.
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