Passión de Buena Vista

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If there is one thing to display cuban mentality the best, then it is music and dance.
Today, world-wide well-known styles of music, like Rumba, Mambo, Cha Cha Cha and Salsa originate from 4 basic elements, put together by the times. Originally, despite percussions and claves, there are no other instruments. The integration of melodic instruments developed the today known, commercialised version of the Rumba and other fashionable dances like the Mambo. The interaction of singers and the choire marks the „Son“, originator of todays Salsa. The „Danzon“ has been rejected by the upper class in Cuba for a long time, but is today the most popular dance on the island. The Cha Cha Cha developed out of it. Singers, travelling through the country, used to sing sad and beautiful ballads. During the revolutionary years, the lyrics were changed thematically and used for propaganda. Later, the musicians returned to their original contents. Today, the „cuban“ style of music people realize when travelling Cuba, therefore is a synthesis of african percussion with spanish Coplas and its instrumentalisation.