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Salsa RootsPart 1
Bellwork Merengue- Dominican style of music and
dance
Bolero- Cuban dance in two
Mambo- A Latin dance of Cuba
Guaguancó—an Afro-Cuban rumba
Rancheras—A Mexican vocal song with instrumental accompaniment
vallenato-A vocal song with accordion accompaniment from Columbia
Outcomes Grammar: Learn basic facts about the roots
of salsa music
Logic: Practice playing specific Latin rhythms
Announcements Test on Salsa Roots Thursday, December 12th.
Reading #15 due Tuesday December 10th
Outline of slide show due Tuesday December 10th
Bring your electronic devices tomorrow. We will be working on the final project.
Slideshow Outline: Example
Name: Francisca Wise
Topic: Hand-clapping Games
Artist examples: Maria, Kayla, Darianna
Musical Examples: “I don’t want to go to Mexico”, “Pepsi”
Slide 1-3: History and background of Hand-clapping Games in the USA
Slide 4: Hand clapping games from around the world
Outline part 2 Slide 5: Transition to hand clapping games
from my neighborhood
Slide 6: Miss Mary Mack
Slide 7: Speed (Numbers)
Slide 8: Pictures
Slide 9: Clips from neighborhood interviews—cross-generational—girls and mothers
Slide 10: Influence of hand clapping games on childhood social development
Pre-Knowledge Define salsa:
What part of the world does salsa music come from?
Who dances salsa?
Have you ever danced salsa?
What instruments are used in a salsa band?
Merengue
Merengue Rhythm
Merengue Learn the Merengue Rhythm!
Put both hands on your left knee.
The first hit is in the right hand
RLRR RLRLRR
Start on with both hands on your left knee.
Move the large R to your right knee
RLRR RLRLRR Try it on the congas
Bolero—Dos Almos
Mambo Rhythm
Pass me the ketchup would youPlease pass the ketchup would you
R R L R R L R R R L R R L R
Mambo Learn the Mambo Rhythm!
Put your right hand on your right knee and your left hand on your left knee
The first hit is in the right hand
RRLRRLR RRLRRLR
Try it on the congas
Rancheras
Vallenato
Salsa is…
An artistic articulation of urban life
A reaffirmation of class conflict
A source of identity in Latin America
Guided Notes Panethnicity is the grouping of people into
one large group based on similar physical characteristics, sharing of a common language, common culture, or sharing of a common religion.
Because it is Pan-Latino, Salsa music does not have a fixed definition.
Salsa has roots in antecedents in folklore and in black counterplantation culture in oppositionality and resistance.
Active Listening #1 Name all the instruments you hear:
The saxophone has a recurring melodic motive—it is ascending or descending?
Quizas, Quizas, Quizas
Quizas means perhaps.
The trumpet lines are influenced by rancheras music.
CFU: Snowball Create one question from the facts you
learned in our class today.
Write it on a piece of paper along with your name and then crumple it up and throw it to the front of the room.
When you are instructed to, go up and choose one snowball. Open it up and answer the question then turn it in.
This will count as your exit ticket for today.
Guided Notes The anglo mainstream in America often appropriates
and co-opts the cultural productions of less dominant groups.
Salsa was born in the Latino barrios of 1960’s New York.
Salsa was heavily influenced by the Cuban music of the 1950’s.
Son is a Cuban secular musical dance form that originated in the rural areas of eastern Cuba.
Other Cuban influences include the use of timbales, the higher pitch range, of salsa vocal lines, congas, clave rhythm.
Play it! Timbale Rhythm
Say the following:
Pass the ketchup in east St. Louis
With your pencil tap the metal of the eraser on the metal of your chair.
Timbales
Active Listening #2 Which instrument “screams”?
Give three adjectives which describe this Mambo
Just the Facts Mambo #8
Mambo literally means conversation of the gods in kikongo.
Perez Prado was known as the King of Mambo.
CFU: Dance the Mambo
R-back L R front L-forward R step L back
Quick Quick Slow
Map QuestID: Cuba, Puerto Rico,
Dominican Republic, Venezuela, Columbia