![]() But I found that by that time the term had been well coined for a while. I beg to differ from Rondón and many others that agree with him. The great Venezuelan Latino music writer Cesar Miguel Rondón, in his book “El Libro de la Salsa” traces the origin of the popularity of the term to the mid 1970’s. My attempt here is not to correctly define the term ‘ Salsa“, but to use it in its most popular way. I’ll exclude “merengue” and keep this rhythm as its own musical genre. It referes mostly to the rythms of guaguanco, son, son montuno, guaracha, rumba, bomba and plena. Salsa = term used to described the rythms mostly from Cuba and Puerto Rico, mixed with the enhanced brass (wind instruments) elements of jazz. Therefore, let’s define the term for the purposes of this Latin music blog series: “El Libro de la Salsa” by Venezuelan Cesar Miguel Rondón The term Salsa may mean different things to different people. ![]() I hope you find them entertaining and informative. I originally published these blogs in 2009, when I was starting Latino Music Café. This will be a 7-part series of Salsa music blogs, starting with this introductory one. ![]() ![]() I’ll be retracing those steps back from the 50’ and 60’s until today. In this blog series I’ll cover the evolution and different challenges Salsa has faced, and how I believe it survived them. I think you’ll find it interesting to retrace Salsamusic’s steps starting some 50 years ago.
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