cool.
you went to cuba for music.
worldwide "cuban music" aint known
nor are the artist
but REGGAE music?
Bob Marley?
you could play Eek-A-Mouse to someone in Baghdad and they will tell you it hails from jamaica.
Play some chan-chan to someone from Belarus and they wouldn't be able to pinpoint the country.

That's all I'm saying.

Play some Jazz, Muddy Watters or Kendrick Lamar to someone in Turkmenistahn and they will say AMERICA!

brand recognition m'dude.

Cuban music might be respected and admired by PhD music theorist
but to the layman on the street or in the club
nobody dont know Cuban artists specifically

kinda like Steel Pan music is the catchall for the caribbean
brand recognition

I think Cuba is cool
But it's not some magical place like Disneyland
like I said, there are far better beaches in the caribbean

Old San Juan, Santo Domingo and Havana are interchangeable to me


On the sensationalise part...
even folks in this thread are big upping Cuba's black population
when Dominican Republic gots HELLA blacks


So I can be educated
can you name a few Cuban artist you're feeling so I can be down?
if it helps,
some of my fave Dominican artists are:
Tono Rosario
Juan Luis Guerra
Sergio Vargas




>there.
>
>Salsa comes from Son. There's basically unanimous agreement
>that Salsa used Cuban Son as its foundation and added jazz and
>Boogaloo on top of that.
>
>But to the point, Cuban music has a respected and admired
>place throughout basically all of Latin America today, more or
>less.
>
>Not to mention Mambo and Cha Cha, which are also offshoots of
>Son.
>
>Trues Bob Marley is a world icon of Third World music, but
>Reggae is a narrower genre than Son and it's offshoots,
>especially within the Latin American world.