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52 relations: Accordion, Alfonso X of Castile, Assonance, Barrio, Bass guitar, Beat (music), Caribbean, Corrido, Cuatro (instrument), Culture, El Mundo (Puerto Rico), Florencio Morales Ramos, Garland Encyclopedia of World Music, Güiro, Guitar, Ismael Rivera, Ivy Queen, List of Caribbean membranophones, List of Puerto Ricans, Manuel Jiménez (musician), Maraca, Mexico, Mon Rivera, Music, Music of Puerto Rico, Pandereta plenera, Parody, Pégate, Plena Libre, Ponce, Puerto Rico, Private property, Protest, Puerto Ricans, Puerto Rico, Race (human categorization), Radio, Rafael Cortijo, Requinto, Rhythm, Ricky Martin, San Antón, Satire, Saxophone, Singing, Sound recording and reproduction, Spain, Tambourine, Taylor & Francis, Trombone, Vamos a Celebrar, ..., Viento de Agua, Workforce. Expand index (2 more) »
Accordion
Accordions (from 19th-century German Akkordeon, from Akkord—"musical chord, concord of sounds") are a family of box-shaped musical instruments of the bellows-driven free-reed aerophone type, colloquially referred to as a squeezebox.
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Alfonso X of Castile
Alfonso X (also occasionally Alphonso, Alphonse, or Alfons, 23 November 1221 – 4 April 1284), called the Wise (el Sabio), was the King of Castile, León and Galicia from 30 May 1252 until his death in 1284.
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Assonance
Assonance is a resemblance in the sounds of words or syllables either between their vowels (e.g., meat, bean) or between their consonants (e.g., keep, cape).
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Barrio
Barrio is a Spanish word meaning neighborhood.
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Bass guitar
The bass guitar (also known as electric bass, or bass) is a stringed instrument similar in appearance and construction to an electric guitar, except with a longer neck and scale length, and four to six strings or courses.
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Beat (music)
In music and music theory, the beat is the basic unit of time, the pulse (regularly repeating event), of the mensural level (or beat level).
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Caribbean
The Caribbean is a region that consists of the Caribbean Sea, its islands (some surrounded by the Caribbean Sea and some bordering both the Caribbean Sea and the North Atlantic Ocean) and the surrounding coasts.
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Corrido
The corrido is a popular narrative song and poetry that form a ballad.
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Cuatro (instrument)
The cuatro is the name of a family of Latin American instruments found in South America, and in Puerto Rico and other parts of the West Indies.
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Culture
Culture is the social behavior and norms found in human societies.
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El Mundo (Puerto Rico)
El Mundo, founded in 1919, was a Puerto Rican newspaper.
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Florencio Morales Ramos
Florencio Morales "Flor" Ramos (September 5, 1915 – February 23, 1989), better known as Ramito, was a Puerto Rican trovador, and composer who was a native of Caguas, Puerto Rico.
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Garland Encyclopedia of World Music
The Garland Encyclopedia of World Music is an academic reference work.
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Güiro
The güiro is a Latin American percussion instrument consisting of an open-ended, hollow gourd with parallel notches cut in one side.
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Guitar
The guitar is a fretted musical instrument that usually has six strings.
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Ismael Rivera
Ismael Rivera a.k.a. "Maelo" (October 5, 1931 – May 13, 1987), was a Puerto Rican composer and salsa singer.
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Ivy Queen
Martha Ivelisse Pesante Rodríguez (born March 4, 1972), known as Ivy Queen, is a Puerto Rican singer, songwriter, rapper, actress and record producer.
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List of Caribbean membranophones
This is a list of membranophones used in the Caribbean music area, including the islands of the Caribbean Sea, as well as the musics of Guyana, Suriname, French Guiana, Belize, Garifuna music, and Bermuda.
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List of Puerto Ricans
This is a list of notable people from Puerto Rico which includes people who were born in Puerto Rico (Borinquen), people who are of full or partial Puerto Rican background.
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Manuel Jiménez (musician)
Manuel A. Jiménez or "El Canario", Born in Orocovis, Puerto Rico on January 1, 1895, was a Puerto Rican musician most famous for his work in the plena style.
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Maraca
Maraca, sometimes called rumba shaker, shac-shac, and various other names, is a rattle which appears in many genres of Caribbean and Latin music.
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Mexico
Mexico (México; Mēxihco), officially called the United Mexican States (Estados Unidos Mexicanos) is a federal republic in the southern portion of North America.
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Mon Rivera
Mon Rivera is the common name given to two distinct Puerto Rican musicians (both born in Mayagüez), namely Monserrate Rivera Alers (originally nicknamed Rate, later referred to as "Don Mon", or Mon The Elder, and sometimes erroneously credited as Ramón in songwriting credits) and his oldest son, Efraín Rivera Castillo (1924-1978), (referred to early in his career as "Moncito", or Little Mon, and later known by his father's moniker).
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Music
Music is an art form and cultural activity whose medium is sound organized in time.
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Music of Puerto Rico
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Pandereta plenera
The pandereta plenera, pandero plenero or plenera, is a percussion instrument included in the group of frame drums.
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Parody
A parody (also called a spoof, send-up, take-off, lampoon, play on something, caricature, or joke) is a work created to imitate, make fun of, or comment on an original work—its subject, author, style, or some other target—by means of satiric or ironic imitation.
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Pégate
"Pégate" (English: "Get Closer") is the second single from Ricky Martin's first live album, MTV Unplugged (2006).
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Plena Libre
Plena Libre is a plena and bomba group.
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Ponce, Puerto Rico
Ponce is both a city and a municipality in the southern part of Puerto Rico.
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Private property
Private property is a legal designation for the ownership of property by non-governmental legal entities.
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Protest
A protest (also called a remonstrance, remonstration or demonstration) is an expression of bearing witness on behalf of an express cause by words or actions with regard to particular events, policies or situations.
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Puerto Ricans
Puerto Ricans (Puertorriqueños; or boricuas) are people from Puerto Rico, the inhabitants and citizens of Puerto Rico, and their descendants.
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Puerto Rico
Puerto Rico (Spanish for "Rich Port"), officially the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico (Estado Libre Asociado de Puerto Rico, "Free Associated State of Puerto Rico") and briefly called Porto Rico, is an unincorporated territory of the United States located in the northeast Caribbean Sea.
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Race (human categorization)
A race is a grouping of humans based on shared physical or social qualities into categories generally viewed as distinct by society.
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Radio
Radio is the technology of using radio waves to carry information, such as sound, by systematically modulating properties of electromagnetic energy waves transmitted through space, such as their amplitude, frequency, phase, or pulse width.
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Rafael Cortijo
Rafael Antonio Cortijo (January 11, 1928 – October 3, 1982) was a Puerto Rican musician, orchestra leader, and composer.
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Requinto
The term requinto is used in both Spanish and Portuguese to mean a smaller, higher-pitched version of another instrument.
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Rhythm
Rhythm (from Greek ῥυθμός, rhythmos, "any regular recurring motion, symmetry") generally means a "movement marked by the regulated succession of strong and weak elements, or of opposite or different conditions".
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Ricky Martin
Enrique José Martín Morales (born December 24, 1971), commonly known as Ricky Martin, is a Puerto Rican singer, actor and author.
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San Antón
San Antón is one of the 31 barrios of the municipality of Ponce, Puerto Rico.
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Satire
Satire is a genre of literature, and sometimes graphic and performing arts, in which vices, follies, abuses, and shortcomings are held up to ridicule, ideally with the intent of shaming individuals, corporations, government, or society itself into improvement.
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Saxophone
The saxophone (also referred to as the sax) is a family of woodwind instruments.
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Singing
Singing is the act of producing musical sounds with the voice and augments regular speech by the use of sustained tonality, rhythm, and a variety of vocal techniques.
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Sound recording and reproduction
Sound recording and reproduction is an electrical, mechanical, electronic, or digital inscription and re-creation of sound waves, such as spoken voice, singing, instrumental music, or sound effects.
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Spain
Spain (España), officially the Kingdom of Spain (Reino de España), is a sovereign state mostly located on the Iberian Peninsula in Europe.
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Tambourine
The tambourine is a musical instrument in the percussion family consisting of a frame, often of wood or plastic, with pairs of small metal jingles, called "zils".
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Taylor & Francis
Taylor & Francis Group is an international company originating in England that publishes books and academic journals.
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Trombone
The trombone is a musical instrument in the brass family.
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Vamos a Celebrar
"Vamos A Celebrar" (English: "Let's Go Celebrate") is a song recorded by Puerto Rican singer Ivy Queen.
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Viento de Agua
Viento de Agua is a contemporary bomba and plena band, created in New York City in 1997.
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Workforce
The workforce or labour force (labor force in American English; see spelling differences) is the labour pool in employment.
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References
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plena
