Salsa Roots Part 1

Bellwork  Merengue- Dominican style of music and dance  Bolero- Cuban dance in two  Mambo- A Latin dance of Cuba  Guaguancó—an Afro-Cuban rumba  Rancheras—A Mexican vocal song with instrumental accompaniment  vallenato-A vocal song with accordion accompaniment from Columbia

Outcomes  Grammar: Learn basic facts about the roots of salsa music  Logic: Practice playing specific Latin rhythms

Announcements  Test on Salsa Roots Thursday, December 12 th.  Reading #15 due Tuesday December 10th  Outline of slide show due Tuesday December 10 th  Bring your electronic devices tomorrow. We will be working on the final project.

Slideshow Outline: Example  Name: Francisca Wise  Topic: Hand-clapping Games  Artist examples: Maria, Kayla, Darianna  Musical Examples: “I don’t want to go to Mexico”, “Pepsi”  Slide 1-3: History and background of Hand-clapping Games in the USA  Slide 4: Hand clapping games from around the world

Outline part 2  Slide 5: Transition to hand clapping games from my neighborhood  Slide 6: Miss Mary Mack  Slide 7: Speed (Numbers)  Slide 8: Pictures  Slide 9: Clips from neighborhood interviews—cross- generational—girls and mothers  Slide 10: Influence of hand clapping games on childhood social development

Pre-Knowledge  Define salsa:  What part of the world does salsa music come from?  Who dances salsa?  Have you ever danced salsa?  What instruments are used in a salsa band?

Merengue

Merengue Rhythm

Merengue  Learn the Merengue Rhythm!  Put both hands on your left knee.  The first hit is in the right hand  RLRR RLRLRR  Start on with both hands on your left knee.  Move the large R to your right knee  RLR R RLRLR R  Try it on the congas

Bolero—Dos Almos

Mambo Rhythm Pass me the ketchup would you Please pass the ketchup would you R R L R R L R R R L R R L R

Mambo  Learn the Mambo Rhythm!  Put your right hand on your right knee and your left hand on your left knee  The first hit is in the right hand  RRLRRLR RRLRRLR  Try it on the congas

Rancheras

Vallenato

Salsa is…  An artistic articulation of urban life  A reaffirmation of class conflict  A source of identity in Latin America

Guided Notes  Panethnicity is the grouping of people into one large group based on similar physical characteristics, sharing of a common language, common culture, or sharing of a common religion.  Because it is Pan-Latino, Salsa music does not have a fixed definition.  Salsa has roots in antecedents in folklore and in black counterplantation culture in oppositionality and resistance.

Active Listening #1  Name all the instruments you hear:  The saxophone has a recurring melodic motive—it is ascending or descending?

Quizas, Quizas, Quizas  Quizas means perhaps.  The trumpet lines are influenced by rancheras music.

CFU: Snowball  Create one question from the facts you learned in our class today.  Write it on a piece of paper along with your name and then crumple it up and throw it to the front of the room.  When you are instructed to, go up and choose one snowball. Open it up and answer the question then turn it in.  This will count as your exit ticket for today.

Guided Notes  The anglo mainstream in America often appropriates and co-opts the cultural productions of less dominant groups.  Salsa was born in the Latino barrios of 1960’s New York.  Salsa was heavily influenced by the Cuban music of the 1950’s.  Son is a Cuban secular musical dance form that originated in the rural areas of eastern Cuba.  Other Cuban influences include the use of timbales, the higher pitch range, of salsa vocal lines, congas, clave rhythm.

Play it! Timbale Rhythm Say the following:  Pass the ketchup in east St. Louis  With your pencil tap the metal of the eraser on the metal of your chair.

Timbales

Active Listening #2  Which instrument “screams”?  Give three adjectives which describe this Mambo

Just the Facts Mambo #8  Mambo literally means conversation of the gods in kikongo.  Perez Prado was known as the King of Mambo.

CFU: Dance the Mambo  R-back L R front L-forward R step L back  Quick Quick Slow

Map Quest ID: Cuba, Puerto Rico, Dominican Republic, Venezuela, Columbia