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Edition of copies. Arte Moderno was a project running in parallel lines to the overriding trends in early 80s Spanish music. Tags ebm electronic coldwave industrial new wave post punk Barcelona. DOML, you may also like: Here, the gaita bagpipe and tabor pipe playing traditions are prominent. In most of Castile, there is a strong tradition of dance music for dulzaina shawm and rondalla groups. As in many other parts of the Iberian peninsula, ritual dances include paloteos stick dances. Salamanca is known as the home of tuna , a serenade played with guitars and tambourines , mostly by students dressed in medieval clothing.
Madrid is known for its chotis music, a local variation to the 19th-century schottische dance.
Flamenco , although not considered native, is popular among some urbanites but is mainly confined to Madrid. Though Catalonia is best known for sardana music played by a cobla , there are other traditional styles of dance music like ball de bastons stick-dances , galops , ball de gitanes.
Music is at the forefront in cercaviles and celebrations similar to Patum in Berga. Catalan gipsies created their own style of rumba called rumba catalana which is a popular style that's similar to flamenco, but not technically part of the flamenco canon. The rumba catalana originated in Barcelona when the rumba and other Afro-Cuban styles arrived from Cuba in the 19th and early 20th centuries. Catalan performers adapted them to the flamenco format and made it their own.
Though often dismissed by aficionados as "fake" flamenco, rumba catalana remains wildly popular to this day. The havaneres singers remain popular.
Having long been the poorest part of Spain, Extremadura is a largely rural region known for the Portuguese influence on its music. As in the northern regions of Spain, there is a rich repertoire for tabor pipe music. The zambomba friction-drum similar to Portuguese sarronca or Brazilian cuica is played by pulling on a rope which is inside the drum. It is found throughout Spain.
The jota is common, here played with triangles , castanets , guitars , tambourines , accordions and zambombas. Murcia is a region in the south-east of Spain which, historically, experienced considerable Moorish colonisation, is similar in many respects to its neighbour, Andalusia. The guitar -accompanied cante jondo Flamenco style is especially associated with Murcia as are rondallas , plucked-string bands. Christian songs, such as the Auroras , are traditionally sung a cappella , sometimes accompanied by the sound of church bells , and cuadrillas are festive songs primarily played during holidays, like Christmas.
Navarre and La Rioja are small northern regions with diverse cultural elements. Northern Navarre is Basque in language, while the Southern section shares more Aragonese features. The jota is also known in both Navarre and La Rioja. Both regions have rich dance and dulzaina shawm traditions. Txistu tabor pipe and dulzaina ensembles are very popular in the public celebrations of Navarre.
Traditional music from Valencia is characteristically Mediterranean in origin. Valencia also has its local kind of Jota. Moreover, Valencia has a high reputation for musical innovation, and performing brass bands called bandes are common, with one appearing in almost every town. Valencia also shares some traditional dances with other Iberian areas, like for instance, the ball de bastons stick-dances.
The group Al Tall is also well-known, experimenting with the Berber band Muluk El Hwa , and revitalizing traditional Valencian music, following the Riproposta Italian musical movement.
Although Spanish pop music is currently flourishing, the industry suffered for many years under Francisco Franco 's regime , with few outlets for Spanish performers. Regardless, American and British music, especially rock and roll , had a profound impact on Spanish audiences and musicians.
The Benidorm International Song Festival , founded in in Benidorm , became an early venue where musicians could perform contemporary music for Spanish audiences. Inspired by the Italian San Remo Music Festival , this festival was followed by a wave of similar music festivals in places like Barcelona , Majorca and the Canary Islands.
Many of the Spanish pop stars of the era rose to fame through these music festivals. An injured Real Madrid football player-turned-singer, for example, became the world-famous Julio Iglesias. During the s and early s, tourism boomed, bringing yet more musical styles from the rest of the continent and abroad. Once derivative of Anglo-American musical trends, contemporary Spanish pop began developing its own original music, encompassing all contemporary popular genres, from electronica and Euro disco , to homegrown blues , rock , punk , ska , reggae , hip-hop and others.
Artists like Enrique Iglesias and Alejandro Sanz have become successful internationally, selling millions of albums worldwide and winning major music awards such as the Grammy Award. As Spanish is commonly spoken in Spain and most of Latin America, music from both regions have been able to crossover with each other. It mainly consisted of fusions of American rock from the early s such as twist and British beat music. The earliest Spanish pop was an imitation of French pop, which at the time was itself an imitation of American and British pop and rock. From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.
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