Title: What Is Salsa Music and What Is Its Origin?
Headings: What Is Salsa Music and What Is Its Origin?
What Is Salsa Music and What Is Its Origin?
Learn more about one of the more exciting styles of Latin music
Salsa Music
Birthplace of Salsa
Evolution of Salsa
What's in a Name

Content: Evolution of Salsa
Between 1930 and 1960 there were musicians from Cuba, Puerto Rico, Mexico, and South America coming to New York to perform. They brought their own native rhythms and musical forms with them, but as they listened to each other and played music together, the musical influences mixed, fused, and evolved. This type of musical hybridization gave birth to the 1950s creation of the mambo from son, conjunto, and jazz traditions. Continuing musical fusion went on to include what we know today as the cha-cha, rumba, conga, and, in the 1960s, salsa. Of course, this musical hybridization was not a one-way street. The music went back to Cuba, Puerto Rico, and South America and continued to evolve there. It evolved a little differently in each place, so today we have Cuban salsa ( timba ), Puerto Rican salsa , and Colombian salsa (dura). Each style has a driving, electric energy that is the hallmark of the salsa form, but it also has the distinctive sounds of its country of origin. What's in a Name
The spicy salsa sauce that is eaten in Latin America is added to give food zing. In this same vein, without going into the many apocryphal legends about who was first to use the term, DJs, bandleaders, and musicians started yelling "Salsa" as they were introducing a particularly energetic musical act or to spur the dancers and musicians on to more frenetic activity.