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