Keywords
Latin American Music - cultural aspects
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Abstract
This article examines the lyrics of some Salsa songs, analyzing part of the aesthetic statements from Latin America, which mention the African Diaspora. This analysis values a progressive recognition of the African contribution in the Caribbean culture development, identifying the communities that use the legacy of this musical gender. Emphasis is made in four instances within the development of this music: the Afro-Cuban musical tradition in the first half of the 20th century, the Latin movement of New York and their later reception in Colombia and western Africa.The journal Memoria y Sociedad is registered under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International Public License. Thus, this work may be reproduced, distributed, and publicly shared in digital format, as long as the names of the authors and Pontificia Universidad Javeriana are acknowledged. Others are allowed to quote, adapt, transform, auto-archive, republish, and create based on this material, for any purpose (even commercial ones), provided the authorship is duly acknowledged, a link to the original work is provided, and it is specified if changes have been made. Pontificia Universidad Javeriana does not hold the rights of published works and the authors are solely responsible for the contents of their works; they keep the moral, intellectual, privacy, and publicity rights.
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