Across
- 2. Argentinian dance and song genre and national symbol
- 3. Colombian singer-songwriter who is perhaps one of the most important Latin music artists of the early 21st c.
- 4. Genre that emerged in Argentina in the late 1970s as political resistance, influential as a precursor of rock en español
- 6. 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
- 8. percussionist and bandleader who popularized Latin dance genres and became a symbol of Puerto Rican identity
- 11. Any process (economic, political, cultural) that extends beyond the boundaries of nation-states
- 13. 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
- 14. Música _______ Brazilian rural music featuring two singers in parallel thirds
- 16. Cuban American pop singer who began her career as the lead vocalist for Miami Sound Machine, pioneering the Latin pop explosion
- 17. Colombian bandleader who led one of the most innovative and successful orchestras of música tropical in the 1940s
- 18. _____ Records, one of the first Mexican American-owned record labels, influential in recording, disseminating, and popularizing conjunto tejano
- 20. 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
- 21. Chilean singer-songwriter who was tortured and killed after the coup that deposed Salvador Allende; extremely influential writer of nueva canción
- 25. Extremely influential accordionist who added vocals to the traditional conjunto tejano, retuned the accordion, and represents the transition to a modern conjunto style
- 27. One of the most pressing issues of the U.S.-Mexico relationship, 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
- 31. 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
- 32. 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
- 34. Argentinian pianist, singer and bandleader who as a leader of Serú Girán, defined rock nacional
- 35. Panamanian singer and composer; one of the most prominent salsa artists
- 36. 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
- 37. Most popular Colombian musical genre
- 38. 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
- 42. Newyorican trombonist and bandleader whose powerful arrangements perfectly complemented Blades’s lyrics
- 43. Dance genre developed by Cuban and Puerto Rican immigrants in New York in the 1960s, featuring elements from Cuban son and jazz; it mediates conflicts between tradition and modernity
- 44. A corrido relating to the drug traffic; while controversial and often banned, they are extremely popular on both sides of the border
Down
- 1. 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
- 5. Argentinian composer who integrated Argentine popular music with classical forms, becoming a leader of the Nuevo Tango
- 7. Colombian singer and actor whose fusion of vallenato with rock, pop legitimized vallenato among middle-class Colombian audiences and popularized it internationally
- 9. Conjunto de ________ Ensemble of traditional cumbia, including gaita hembra, gaita macho, maracas, tambor llamador, tambor alegre, and tambora
- 10. Accordionist and composer, considered the father of Texas Mexican music, also known as “El huracán del valle”
- 12. Colombian working-class genre featuring button accordion, caja and guacharaca
- 15. _________ 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
- 19. Puerto Rican rapper whose smash hit “Gasolina” popularized reggaeton worldwide in 2004
- 22. Mexican composer who helped disseminate bolero throughout Latin America
- 23. Argentinian singer and actor who became the leading singer of La Guardia Nueva and popularized the tango canción all over the world
- 24. Mexican rock rap band that reached fame in the late 1990s
- 26. Genre of Cuban origin featuring close vocal harmonies accompanied with guitars; it became an urban cosmopolitan genre after its arrival in Mexico City in the 1930s
- 28. 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
- 29. Brazilian singer and guitarist who was one of the most influential bossa nova figures for songs such as “Desafinado”
- 30. Brazilian singer and composer who contributed to the establishment of the urban samba, composing such classics as “Aquarela do Brasil”
- 33. The process whereby a minority group, such as immigrants, gradually adapts to the customs and attitudes of the prevailing culture. Historically, Latin American (particularly, Mexican) immigrants have shown a tendency to resist it
- 39. Song and dance, associated particularly with carnival celebrations in Rio de Janeiro; considered Brazil’s national dance
- 40. 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
- 41. 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