![]() ![]() By the 1870s, the habanera bass line, an essential stylistic feature of the Cuban contradanza, was gaining popularity as the first major Latin influence on North American music. In the mid-nineteenth century, Crescent City pianist and composer Louis Moreau Gottschalk traveled throughout the Caribbean, freely incorporating into his compositions the melodies and rhythms of the region's diverse musical traditions ( Louis Moreau Gottschalk, Smithsonian Folkways SF40803). Michael Stone looks in on some keyboard mastersĪncestral Reflections / Reflejos Ancestralesīriyumba Palo Congo: Religion of the Congoīlue Note 99241 (The interaction between Cuban and North American music has a long history, one that began in New Orleans.
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