And salsa was a way to do this so that Jerry Masucci, Fania and other record companies, like CBS, could have a hegemony on the music and keep the Cuban musicians from spreading their music abroad." Izzy Sanabria responded that Martínez was likely giving an accurate Cuban viewpoint, "but salsa was not planned that way". I play Cuban music."Ĭuban musicologist Mayra Martínez wrote that "the term salsa obscured the Cuban base, the music's history or part of its history in Cuba. On the other hand, even some New York based artists were originally against the commercialization of music under that name Machito said: "There's nothing new about salsa, it is just the same old music that was played in Cuba for over fifty years." Similarly, Tito Puente stated: "The only salsa I know is sold in a bottle called ketchup. Salsa is the harmonic sum of all Latin culture ". all the Cuban rhythms under one name." Willie Colón described salsa not as a precise musical style but a power to unite in the broadest terms: "Salsa was the force that united diverse Latino and other non-Latino racial and ethnic groups. Celia Cruz said, "Salsa is Cuban music with another name. Some have praised its unification element. Sanabria confessed the term salsa was not developed by musicians: "Musicians were busy creating the music but played no role in promoting the name salsa." įor this reason the use of the term salsa has been controversial among musicians. Consequently, his promoted events were covered in The New York Times, as well as Time and Newsweek magazines. Sanabria's Latin New York magazine was an English language publication. It's a name that everyone could pronounce. So salsa defined this particular type of music. And that was a very, very broad category, because it even includes mariachi music. The music was still defined as Latin music. I was using salsa, but the music wasn't defined by that. In 1973, I hosted the television show Salsa which was the first reference to this particular music as salsa. Puerto Rican music promoter Izzy Sanabria claims he was the first to use the word salsa to denote a music genre. Later on, while based in Mexico City, the musician Beny Moré would shout salsa during a performance to acknowledge a musical moment's heat, making a connection with the hot salsa (sauce) made in the country. Back in Cuba, influenced by spicy food salsas, he named his group Conjunto Los Salseros, with whom he recorded a couple of albums for the Panart and Egrem labels. In the mid-1940s, Cuban Cheo Marquetti emigrated to Mexico. The phrase is seen as a cry from Piñeiro to his band, telling them to increase the tempo to "put the dancers into high gear". The musicologist Max Salazar believes the origin of the connection lies in 1930 when Ignacio Piñeiro composed the song Échale salsita (Put some sauce in it). The origin of the connection of this word to a style of music is disputed by various music writers and historians. The word Salsa means sauce in the Spanish language. Graciela on claves and her brother Machito on maracas Machito said that salsa was much like what he had been playing from the 1940s. Though limited by an embargo, the continuous cultural exchange between salsa-related musicians inside and outside of Cuba is undeniable. ĭuring the same period a parallel modernization of Cuban son was being developed by Los Van Van, Irakere, NG La Banda, Charanga Habanera and other artists in Cuba under the name of songo and timba, styles that at present are also labelled as salsa. These musicians included Celia Cruz, Rubén Blades, Johnny Pacheco, Machito and Héctor Lavoe. The music style was based on the late son montuno of Arsenio Rodríguez, Conjunto Chappottín and Roberto Faz. The first self-identified salsa bands were predominantly assembled by Cuban and Puerto Rican musicians in New York City in the '70s. Originally the name salsa was used to label commercially several styles of Latin dance music, but nowadays it is considered a musical style on its own and one of the staples of Latin American culture. All of these elements are adapted to fit the basic son montuno template when performed within the context of salsa. Most songs considered as salsa are primarily based on son montuno, with elements of mambo, Latin jazz, bomba, plena and guaracha. Because most of the basic musical components predate the labeling of salsa, there have been many controversies regarding its origin. Salsa music is a style of Latin American music. Tumbadoras (conga drums), one of the basic instruments of salsa music
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