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Bachata urbana
Bachata urbana, or urban bachata, is a style of bachata developed by Dominican musicians in New York City that blends traditional bachata with R&B, hip-hop, and pop.
Danzón
Danzón is a Cuban ballroom dance-music genre in 2/4 time, first performed in Matanzas in 1879, regarded as Cuba's national dance, and ancestral to the mambo and cha-cha-chá.
Salsa (music genre)
Salsa is a Cuban son-based dance music developed by Puerto Rican and Cuban musicians in New York City's Latino barrios in the 1960s and 1970s.
Salsa brava
Salsa brava, also called salsa dura, is the hard, driving salsa style that took shape in New York City in the late 1960s and dominated the 1970s.
Son montuno
Son montuno is a Cuban dance-music style built on the repeating montuno section of the son, named in the 1940s and popularized by Arsenio Rodríguez's conjunto in Havana.
Songo
Songo is a Cuban dance rhythm created by Juan Formell and drummer Changuito within Los Van Van in Havana in 1969, fusing son with rock and bossa nova.
Sonidero scene
The sonidero scene is a Mexican sound-system culture, centered on Mexico City barrios since the 1940s, in which mobile sound systems called sonidos play cumbia while the sonidero delivers dedications over the music.
Tecno-cumbia
Tecno-cumbia (technocumbia) is a cumbia style built on synthesizers and electronic drums that rose to national prominence in Peru in the late 1990s, pioneered by Rossy War.