Latin Rock
| Latin rock | |
|---|---|
| Stylistic origins | |
| Cultural origins | Late 1950s, United States |
| Derivative forms | Latin alternative |
Latin rock is a term to describe a music subgenre consisting in melting traditional sounds and elements of Latin American and Caribbean folk with rock music. However, it is widely used in the English-language media to refer any kind of rock music featuring Spanish or Portuguese vocals. This fact lead into a controversy about the scope of the terminology.
Latin rock should not be confused with "Rock music from Latin America" or Rock en español. It's also closely related to the Latin alternative scene (which combines Latin elements with alternative rock, pop, electronic music, indie or hip hop among others) a term often used to refer the same phenomenon.
Rock music originated from African-American rhythm and blues. Also, there was some influence of the traditional Latin music on it. Caribbean rhythms like calypso were remarkable on surf music; and there were some rock and roll songs based on cha-cha-chá or mambo.
Latin Rock (term not yet created) was born in the United States at late 1950s. In 1958 and adaptation of a Mexican folk song called “La bamba” by the chicano rock artist Ritchie Valens. That same year, instrumental rock band The Champs released "Tequila", that incorporates clear Latin sounds (composed by chicano Danny Flores).
During the 1960s, there were more examples of rock artists like Thee Midniters, Question Mark & the Mysterians,Sam the Sham and the Pharaohs or Sir Douglas Quintet that included Latin rhythms on their compositions. Also the rise of the chicano rock in California joined; although not all of them could be considered as early Latin rock artists since many of them lacked the Latin folk influences.
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