Cuban music continued its dominant influence through ebbs and flows from 1920’s-1930’s and throughout the 1940’s-1950’s. Within the span of these thirty years of music came the births of such genres as the bolero, son, rumba, and the conga the (mainly) Cuban composers who were credited with these genres became extremely popular musicians among a wide spectrum of social sectors from all across the U.S. These waves of wildly successful movements are credited with sparking other powerful musical movements. For example, the mambo (an Afro-Cuban jazz genre) became a unique cross-cultural musical movement that many today credit for cementing the universalization of Caribbean influence in pop
Cuban music continued its dominant influence through ebbs and flows from 1920’s-1930’s and throughout the 1940’s-1950’s. Within the span of these thirty years of music came the births of such genres as the bolero, son, rumba, and the conga the (mainly) Cuban composers who were credited with these genres became extremely popular musicians among a wide spectrum of social sectors from all across the U.S. These waves of wildly successful movements are credited with sparking other powerful musical movements. For example, the mambo (an Afro-Cuban jazz genre) became a unique cross-cultural musical movement that many today credit for cementing the universalization of Caribbean influence in pop