La proliferación de los ritmos afroantillanos y su aporte a la alegría del mundo

Abstract

This note is an analysis of the political, social and cultural behavior surrounding the proliferation of Afro-Antillean rhythms and their contribution to the joy of the world. It emphasizes power, hegemony, resistance and subordination, which reveal hidden and open, accepted and detested musical attitudes and discourses; which, in essence, represent power relations. Our time period begins with the slavery regime in the 16th century and continues until the first decades of the 20th century, when the bufos, the contradanza and the danzón proliferated, which gave rise to the different ways of interpreting mambo. The period of these rhythms began in Cuba at the beginning of the 20th century, and extended to the middle of the same century when it became popular in Mexico and the United States.