Danzón

Danzón Danzón was—and still is—a uniquely American music comprising both European and African elements. It developed in Cuba during the second half of the 19th century and soon spread to Mexico where it remains popular today. An important precursor to danzón was the habanera. The habanera can be traced to the turn of the 19th century when Afro-Caribbeans creolized the French contradance brought to Cuba by émigrés from Haiti and the Dominican Republic fleeing the violence of the Haitian…