MUS354 Final Review

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Across
  1. 2. Genre of Cuban origin featuring romantic lyrics and close vocal harmonies accompanied with guitars; it became an urban cosmopolitan genre after its arrival in Mexico City in the 1930s
  2. 5. Puerto Rican rapper whose smash hit “Gasolina” popularized reggaeton worldwide in 2004
  3. 7. A corrido relating to the drug traffic; while controversial and often banned, they are extremely popular on both sides of the border
  4. 8. Brazilian singer and composer who contributed to the establishment of the urban samba, composing such classics as “Aquarela do Brasil”
  5. 10. Mexican singer and songwriter who wrote many narcocorridos on commission, cultivated a bandit persona and reached fame after being assassinated while on tour in his home state of Sinaloa in 1992; he sparked a revival in the corrido genre
  6. 17. Argentinian composer who integrated Argentine popular music with classical forms and jazz, becoming a leader of the Nuevo Tango
  7. 20. Mexican-born vihuelist and mariachi director who was a leading promoter of mariachi music in the United States; his Mariachi Los Camperos earned widespread recognition
  8. 24. _____ Records: one of the first Mexican American-owned record labels, influential in recording, disseminating, and popularizing conjunto tejano
  9. 26. Accordionist and composer, considered the father of Texas Mexican music, also known as “El huracán del valle”
  10. 28. Colombian pop singer who established her popularity throughout Latin America with her 1996 album Pies descalzos and broke into the U.S. market with the bilingual album Laundry Service in 2001
  11. 29. Mexican rock en español band whose distinctive sound included post-punk, Mexican folk and Afro-Caribbean musics, as seen in their 1990 album El Diablito
  12. 34. Mexican singer who pioneered the corrido tumbado style with his band los Plebes del Rancho, which included guitar, requinto and tuba
  13. 35. Conjunto norteño known for their romantic music, dance music as well as narcocorridos; their lyrics often use code words to refer to drug lore, such as in “Mis tres animales”
  14. 36. Conjunto de ________ Ensemble of traditional cumbia, including including gaita hembra, gaita macho, maracas, tambor llamador, tambor alegre, and tambora
  15. 37. Corrido ________: genre that emerged in the 2010s that fuses traditional elements of Mexican folk musics with elements of trap, hip hop, and reggaeton and violent, gritty lyrics often referencing drug trafficking
  16. 39. Colombian singer and actor whose fusion of vallenato with rock, pop legitimized vallenato among middle-class Colombian audiences and popularized it internationally
  17. 43. Genre that emerged in Argentina in the late 1970s as political resistance, influential as a precursor of rock en español
  18. 44. Song and dance, associated particularly with carnival celebrations in Rio de Janeiro; considered Brazil’s national dance
  19. 46. Dance genre developed by Cuban Americans and Puerto Ricans in New York in the 1960s and 1970s, featuring elements from Cuban son and jazz; it mediates conflicts between tradition and modernity
  20. 47. A term referring to Mexican Americans; although it previously had negative connotations, it was reclaimed during the 1960s civil rights movement as a symbol of pride in Mexican American heritage
  21. 49. Música _______ Term that describes the various Afro-Caribbean styles, from Colombia as well as foreign origin, played by Colombian big bands in the 1930s and 40s; now describes all genres of Afro-Caribbean origin
  22. 51. Newyorican trombonist and bandleader whose powerful arrangements perfectly complemented Blades’s lyrics
Down
  1. 1. Mexican American labor leader and civil rights activist who became an icon for the Chicano Movement; several corridos were written in his honor
  2. 3. Hip hop en español duo consisting of two Puerto Rican step-brothers: rapper Residente and producer Visitante. Their eclectic style mixes reggaeton and hip hop with musics from all over the world with political and social commentary, for example in “La Perla”
  3. 4. Brazilian singer and guitarist who was one of the most influential bossa nova figures for songs such as “Desafinado”
  4. 6. Argentinian rock nacional band whose mixture of pop, reggae and new wave (such as seen in their album Signos) made them one of the top Spanish-language bands of the 1980s
  5. 9. Mexican composer who helped disseminate bolero throughout Latin America
  6. 11. Música _______ Brazilian rural music featuring guitars, accordion, and two singers in parallel thirds
  7. 12. Colombian singer-songwriter who is perhaps one of the most important Latin music artists of the early 21st c.
  8. 13. Adaptation of rock to a Latin American context, featuring Spanish-language lyrics, Latin American themes, rhythms and instruments, and the use of local folk and popular genres
  9. 14. Argentinian singer and actor who became the leading singer of La Guardia Nueva and popularized the tango canción all over the world
  10. 15. Mexican-American singer, known as “La Diva de la Banda”, who became successful in the male-dominated banda and narcocorrido scene until her death in a plane crash in 2012
  11. 16. Percussionist and bandleader who popularized Latin dance genres and became a symbol of Puerto Rican identity
  12. 18. Colombian bandleader who led one of the most innovative and successful orchestras of música tropical in the 1940s
  13. 19. Any process (economic, political, cultural) that extends beyond the boundaries of nation-states
  14. 21. _____ Records, one of the first Mexican American-owned record labels, influential in recording, disseminating, and popularizing conjunto tejano
  15. 22. Grammy-award winning pop and country singer whose 1987 album Canciones de mi padre was influential in spurring interest in mariachi music and highlighted mariachi as a symbol of Mexican American identity
  16. 23. Cuban American pop singer who began her career as the lead vocalist for Miami Sound Machine, pioneering the Latin pop explosion
  17. 25. Extremely influential accordionist who added vocals to the traditional conjunto tejano, retuned the accordion, and represents the transition to a modern conjunto style
  18. 27. Panamanian singer and composer; one of the most prominent salsa artists
  19. 29. Argentinian pianist, singer and bandleader who as a leader of Serú Girán, defined rock nacional
  20. 30. Chilean singer-songwriter who was tortured and killed after the coup that deposed Salvador Allende; extremely influential writer of nueva canción
  21. 31. Mexican rock rap band that reached fame in the late 1990s
  22. 32. Pan-Latin urban genre that originated in Puerto Rico and NYC in the early 1990s, mixing hip hop, reggae and Latin American musics with Spanish-language lyrics
  23. 33. Most popular Colombian musical genre, featuring African-based rhythms
  24. 38. A term that describes a new era of human communication and interconnection across cultural, national, and geographic boundaries; its processes are separate from specific national boundaries, whereas transnational processes are still anchored in one or more nation states
  25. 40. One of the most pressing issues of U.S. relations with Latin America, it can be said to have transformed the demographics of the border region as well as the U.S. at large over the past 70+ years
  26. 41. Brazilian popular music, influenced by jazz, that developed in the 1960s as a new way of performing samba-canção, popular among the white, urban middle and upper classes
  27. 42. Colombian working-class genre featuring button accordion, caja and guacharaca
  28. 45. Argentinian dance and song genre and national symbol
  29. 48. _________ canción: Influential folk and folk-inspired Latin American song genre, featuring poetic lyrics often focused on social justice issues; emerged first in Chile, where it was closely associated with the administration of President Allende
  30. 50. The use and knowledge of both English and Spanish; it is an increasing feature of the biculturalism of the border region and beyond