1. Music of the Andes Region: A Thriving Tradition
With the coming of the Spanish conquerors in the latter half of the sixteenth century, accompanied by Catholic missionaries and African slaves, additional musical idioms were introduced: [T]he pulsating rhythms of the bombo, and the congo beats permeate that which we call Andean music. ... Other dances derive themselves from the non-indigenous cultures which contribute to the Andes' cultural mosaic - Cuba, which lends to the Andes the syncopated "rumba-, the hip-swaying "cha-cha-cha- and the ever-popular "mambo- and Africa, which contributes the sensuous "tango- and the pulsating rhythms...
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