Music {Cuban music} can have European, folk, sacred, and jazz roots.
Cuban popular dance music {son, Cuba} can be from Oriente province. Son includes Son-montuno, Afro-son, and Guajira-son {changui}. Slower son {Guajira} has piano or guitar arpeggios, as in the song Guantanamera. Son can have ballads {bolero, music}.
Son is basis of salsa, which has derivatives {songo} and {timba}.
Flamenco has an offshoot {zapateo}.
Folk music {rumba, music} has drums and call-and-response singing.
Lucumi-religion sacred music {Yoruba music} uses bata drums.
European dance styles evolved {danzón}. Danzon has section {nuevo ritmo}, which evolved in 1940s and 1950s {mambo, music}. Mambo has a branch {cha-cha, music}.
Jazz has a branch {descarga}.
Music can be for Carnaval in Mozambique {conga, music}.
Instrumental music uses flutes and violins {pachanga} {charanga}.
Dance music from Pilón is about sugarcane pounding {pilón}.
instruments
Instruments are lute-like or mandolin-like {laud, instrument}, claves, maracas, ukelele {cuatro} {tiple}, lute {charango}, ocarina {zampona}, panpipes {antara}, thumb piano, cowbell, bongo drums, conga drum {tumba} {nino}, and three-stringed guitar {tres, guitar}. Instruments can be gourds with notches scraped by a stick {guiro} {guayo} {cacho}. Instruments can be wooden spools with metal beads {cabaca}.
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