Title: Salsa music - Wikipedia
Headings: Salsa music
Salsa music
Contents
Salsa as a musical term
Issues of identity and ownership
Lyrics
Instrumentation
Son Conjunto
String charanga
Percussion
Music structure
Verse and chorus sections
Clave
Percussion and clave alignment
Guajeo
Bass tumbao
Moñas
History
Pre-salsa: Cuban dance music in New York City 1930-1940
1970s
Divergence of salsa and Cuban popular music
1980s
"Salsa cubana" and the birth of timba
African salsa
1990s to the present
Films
See also
References
Notes
Bibliography
Further reading
External links

Content: Machito said that salsa was much like what he had been playing from the 1940s. There is considerable controversy surrounding the term salsa and the idea that it is its own distinct genre. Several Cuban New York musicians who had already been performing Cuban dance music for decades when salsa was popularized initially scoffed at the term. For example, Cuban-born Machito declared: " There's nothing new about salsa, it is just the same old music that was played in Cuba for over fifty years." Similarly, New York native Tito Puente stated: " The only salsa I know is sold in a bottle called ketchup. I play Cuban music." Eventually though, both Machito and Puente embraced the term as a financial necessity. The salsa conflict can be summarized as a disagreement between those who do not recognize salsa as anything other than Cuban music with another name, and those who strongly identify with salsa as a music and culture distinct from its Cuban primogenitor.