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: Globally, the term salsa has eclipsed the original names of the various Cuban musical genres it encompasses. Ironically, Cuban-based music was promoted more effectively worldwide in the 1970s and 1980s by the salsa industry, than by Cuba. For a brief time in the early 1990s a fair number of Cuban musicians embraced the term, calling their own music salsa Cubana. The practice did not catch on however. Issues of identity and ownership
Graciela on claves and her brother Machito on maracas; 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."