Creolization in the Spanish-speaking Caribbean
Heyyy Everyone! Welcome to another segment of "My Music Blog" with your favorite blogger, Ches. I know you all are excited and eager to read what we have for today but before we dive into things, I have to break the news to you guys that this will be my last post on this topic. This was a great learning experience for me and I hope it was for you too. Thank you! Now let's get to it! So far we have covered the Caribbean nations that speak English, French, and Dutch so today we will talk about those that speak Spanish. Today we're going to look at Cuba but we'll only cover two examples of creolization. Cuba's culture contains a wide range of various examples of creolization. However, the purpose of today's excursion is to raise awareness of the Cuban Son musical genre and the Cuban Santeria religion. Now, traditional sones typically include a double meter structure that is derived from son lyrics and easy European harmonic rhythms. They employ European-der