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Music in Puerto Rico Handout

Posted by jte001 on November 28, 2009

The handout for Puerto Rico has covered all of the musical culture elements that are known.  The activities of Puerto Rican music consist of dance.  The popular dance style called Salsa did arrive from Puerto Rico.  The ideas of the music is that it is created to dance just so the people can express themselves in a different way.  The people who makes this music are highly trained professionals who professionally record all of their music soon to have it release to the public.  The material culture of this type of music is very traditional with the acoustic guitar being played in old ways.  Also the people who dance to the music typically wear an outfit that is traditional.  The women will wear long skirted dresses while the men ared dressed in button up shirts with no jacket.

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