Latin American Music

1. A hand percussion instrument whose sound is produced by scraping a group of notched sticks with another stick, creating a series of rattling effects.
4. A 20th century social dance that originated after 1910 in the USA.
6. A flute variety from the Aztec culture made of clay with decorations of abstract designs or images of their deities.
9. A ten-stringed Andean guitar from Bolivia.
12. A movement effecting a radical change in the classic Cuban samba.
13. popular recreational dance of Afro-Cuban origin, performed in a complex duple meter pattern and tresillo.
14. A Mexican upright tubular drum used by the Aztecs and other ancient civilization.
15. An extremely popular band in Mexico whose original ensemble consisted of violins, guitars, harp, and an enormous guitarron.
18. A wind instrument made from a seashell usually of a large sea snail. It is prepared by cutting a hole in its spine near the apex, then blown into as if it were a trumpet.
19. A social dance with marked influences from Cuba and PuertoRico that started in New York in the mid 1970’s.

2. A singer who has become known as the “Philippines’Queen of Bossa Nova.”
3. A foremost Argentinian and Uruguayan urban popular song and dance .
5. An ancient vessel flute made of clay or ceramic with four to 12 finger holes and a mouthpiece that projected from the body.
6. A Mexican slit drum hollowed out and carved from a piece of hardwood.
7. A theatrical Spanish dance used by the Spaniards in bullfights.
8. Instruments made of natural elements such as bone from animals.
10. A fusion of the popular music orcanciones (songs) of Spain and the African rumba rhythms of Bantu origin.
11. A dance form of African origins around 1838 which evolved into an African-Brazilian invention in the working class and slum districts of Rio de Janeiro.
16. An urban popular music and dance style that originated in Jamaica in the mid 1960’s.
17. A ballroom dance the originated in Cubain 1953, derived from the mambo.