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Latina/o Music in the 1960s and 1970s
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Latina/o Music in the 1960s and 1970s
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By the 1970s, the name salsa became a popular term for New York based Latino
music, bringing together Cuban, Puerto Rican and now colombian and panamanian
styles to Latino musics. Latin rock also had roots in African, Cuban and Brazilian
percussion, as featured in the west coast by Chicano groups such as Santana.
As Wilson Valentin suggests, the key idea in this transnational music is
'fusion', blending traditional and progressive sounds and rhythms. How salsa
music will change in the next century is hard to predict - that it will continue
to thrive is very clear.
In the 1960s, there was
a strong revival of Cuban influenced Latin popular and jazz musics, infused
by an influx of Cuban emigres. With the help of Fania Records, a Latino-owned
recording company based in New York, the Caribbean-influenced music of Ray Barretto,
Eddie Palmieri, Celia Cruz and Larry Harlow, among others, was widely distributed.
In the east coast, the bugalu emerged, a blend
of Latino and soul music was introduced by Willie Colon, Joe Cuba and others.
In the west coast, the bossa nova , a mambo/jazz
fusion was featured by Charlie Byrd and Stan Getz.
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