There are very few places in the world which have had as profound an impact on contemporary music as Cuba. Nowadays you can hear influences from traditional Cuban music anywhere from jazz to country and even popular music. From this it can only be deduced that if ... .com, the information here seems to be written by an organization of salsa dancers who in turn cited various reference books as their source of information. These authors note that son is the "backbone of contemporary salsa- and were derived in Cuba from numerous African influences, two of which are the use of hand drums and its ...

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... cultural aspects of a society. Ireland has a rich artistic background. It ranges from traditional art of song, music, dance and pictures to poetry, short stories, myths, and art of storytelling. Different authors including Ciaran Carson have used a combination of the arts and add personal attributes. Like his father before him, Ciaran Carson is a gifted Irish artist. He has used his vivid imagination ... traditional tunes that inspired his work of poetry and quotations. From using his unique method of combining words and music together made his writings become vivid depictions of histor...

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