This isn't a direct comment on what's been said here, but Latin music has had a hidden presence in a huge amount of modern "Anglo-American" pop music - for instance, "Louie Louie," "Like A Rolling Stone," "Wild Thing," all based on a quick run up and down the I-IV-V (or Vm) that was standard as a fill in Cuban music (and probably in other Latin music; Dylan has said that the chorus to "Like A Rolling Stone" was taken from "La Bamba," which was a Mexican folk song that was already 250 years old [according to Wiki, anyway] before Richie Valens got to it). The Pete Hammond Mix of Alphabeat's "Boyfriend" draws on freestyle (a.k.a. "Latin hip-hop"); as did a few New Order hits (though I don't remember their names). Most of this music doesn't announce itself as "Latin," however.
Also, I wonder if 2-step (in the country music sense, but perhaps also in the underground garage sense) owes its presence in modern music to northern Mexico/southern Texas polka stylings that have been ongoing since the mid-nineteenth century.
(I hope someone who knows more about this than I drops in on this thread.)
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Re: latin
Date: 2009-01-05 06:01 pm (UTC)Also, I wonder if 2-step (in the country music sense, but perhaps also in the underground garage sense) owes its presence in modern music to northern Mexico/southern Texas polka stylings that have been ongoing since the mid-nineteenth century.
(I hope someone who knows more about this than I drops in on this thread.)