mambo

Mambo is a Cuban music style that derives from the danzón tradition. In many Latin American countries, the style is referred to as danzón-mambo. Mambo combines elements of popular Latin dance genres with the musical sophistication of the son Cubano genre - the bedrock of the broader musical style known as salsa.

shake it Many sources claim that the dance was named after Haitian voodoo priests (called “Mambo”) who served the villagers as healers and spiritual advisors. Mambo was also a word used for their drums that were used in rituals. Other sources say that the word was used to mean “shake it” or “a conversation with the Gods.”

In the mid-1940s, bandleaders devised a dance for a new form of music known as mambo, taking its name from the 1938 song Mambo, a charanga composed by Orestes Lopez which had popularized a new form of danzon which later was known as danzon mambo.

: a ballroom dance of Cuban origin that resembles the rumba and the cha-cha. also : the music for this dance.

Cuba Mambo music, which emerged in Cuba in the 1940s but was popularized in Mexico City and New York, blended jazz harmonies and instrumentation with Afro-Cuban rhythms. Mambo dancing evolved in New York City in the late 1940s and became an international dance craze by the early 1950s.

Tempo Information The Mambo is generally danced to music in a 4/4 meter between 188 and 204 beats per minute (47 and 51 measures per minute).

Characteristics of Mambo Music Mambo is characterized by its syncopated rhythms and upbeat tempo, which typically falls between 110 and 130 beats per minute. It features a strong brass section, including trumpets and trombones, combined with piano, bass, and percussion instruments such as congas and timbales.

From Haitian Creole manbo (“voodoo priestess”) (ultimately from Yoruba mambo (“to talk”)), in later senses via Cuban Spanish mambo (“dance”).

This week we travel to Cuba to explore Mambo, a genre of dance music that was initially popularized by a charanga group called Arcaño y sue Maravillas led by the venerable flute player Antonio Arcaño in the late 1930s, and coined as a form by the tandem of two brothers, composers Orestes López and his brother Israel ...

1940s The mambo was made popular by the Cuban musician Pérez Prado and developed in the 1940s as a marriage between son and swing.

Mambo is a fast and spicy dance characterized by strong Cuban motion, staccato movement and expression of rhythm through the body. The dancer holds on counts 1 and break on count 2. Mambo also features press lines, many swivels and spins. The Mambo frame is the same as the Rhythm frame.

A fast dance, with a lot of 'staccato' movements, Mambo showcases swivels, spins and lots of expressive rhythmic moves. It is typically found in a time signature of 4/4 with the dancer doing a hold on beat 1, and break on beat 2.