Cuba

Cuba Cuba has developed and successfully exported a long succession of musical styles and infectious rhythms, many of which have gone on to conquer the hemisphere and circle the globe. Cuban musical genres over the course of the 20th century include son, rhumba (rumba), danzón, bolero, nueva trova, Cuban hip-hop, and salsa. Best compared to American blues as Cuba’s central, most widely influential musical genre, son was essential to the development of popular Cuban dance music between 1920 and…