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Music and Dance were essential elements in the development
of Latin American culture. The history of Latin America is full of unpleasant occurences during the colonization time period.
Sometimes music and dance were the only pieces of culture African slaves or Indigenous natives could maintain and turn to
when times were bad. The ancient dances that passed through the generations were fusions of Indigenous, European and African
forms.The fusion that took place was not only musical, but racial as well; the coming together of all that lived and shared
Latin America is known today as culturalization. Although most Latin American culture disappeared as the years passed - Nothing
could stop the DANCE!!
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Latin American dances are danced today
in places all over the world. Some such dances are the Bolero, Carimbo, Conga, Cueca, Cumbia, Joropo, Lambada, Macarena, Mambo,
Merengue, Rueda and the Salsa. Some of these dances are performed today in Dance competetions and they are also danced socially.
Some of the most widely known Latin
American Dances today (which are discussed on the following pages) include:
Salsa
Vallenato
Merengue
Cumbia
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