When Spain opened the Cuban trade ports, it quickly became a popular place.

Agüero ( a white man ) and Sánchez ( a mulatto ) were both executed, becoming the first popular martyrs of the Cuban independence movement.

While the rail infrastructure dates from colonial and early republican times, passenger service along the principal Havana to Santiago corridor is increasingly reliable and popular with tourists who can purchase tickets in Cuban convertible pesos.

Arcano's group, Arcano y Sus Maravillas, was the first to call a part of a popular Cuban dance a mambo.

The original Cuban recipe uses spearmint or yerba buena, a mint variety very popular on the island.

For the more than quarter-century in which the cakewalk, ragtime and proto-jazz were forming and developing, the Cuban genre habanera was a consistent part of African American popular music.

The use of tresillo was continuously reinforced by the consecutive waves of Cuban music, which were adopted into North American popular culture.

According to John Storm Roberts, R & B became the vehicle for the return of Cuban elements into mass popular music.

Former British Intelligence officer Graham Greene examined the morality of espionage in left-wing, anti-imperialist novels such as The Heart of the Matter ( 1948 ) set in Sierra Leone, the seriocomic Our Man in Havana ( 1959 ) occurring in the Cuba of dictator Fulgencio Batista before his deposition by Fidel Castro's popular Cuban Revolution ( 1953 – 59 ), and The Human Factor ( 1978 ) about British support for the apartheid National Party government of South Africa, against the Red Menace.

Imported styles of popular music with a distinctively Latin flavor include Latin jazz, Argentine and Chilean rock and Cuban and Mexican hip hop, all influenced by styles from the United States ( jazz, rock and roll and hip hop ).

Rei Momo ( 1989 ) was the first solo album by Byrne, after leaving Talking Heads, that features mainly Afro-Cuban, Afro-Hispanic, and Brazilian song styles including popular dances including merengue, Cuban Son, samba, mambo, cumbia, cha-cha-chá, bomba, and charanga.

Salsa music is a general term referring to what is essentially Cuban popular dance music which was internationalized outside Cuba.

In Cuban popular music, the first three strokes of son clave are also known collectively as tresillo, a Spanish word meaning ' triplet ' ( three equal beats in the same time as two main beats ).

Kevin Moore states: " There are two common ways that the three-side is expressed in Cuban popular music.

The pachanga was the last Cuban popular dance to take ahold in New York's Latin community.

Ironically, Cuban popular music during the 1970s incorporated North American jazz, rock, and funk in much more significant ways, than did salsa.

Whereas salsa occasionally superimposes elements of another genre, or incorporates a non-salsa style in the bridge of a song, Cuban popular music since the 1970s has fully integrated North American jazz and funk to the point of true hybrid.

Moore states: " The harmonies, never before heard in Cuban music, were clearly borrowed from North American pop shattered the formulaic limitations on harmony to which Cuban popular music had faithfully adhered for so long.

For the most part, salsa music was not influenced by developments in Cuban popular music during the 1970s.

By that time, Cuban popular music had moved way beyond the old Cuban templates used in salsa.

It would seem at last that Cuban popular music could be marketed as salsa.

Cuban music has been popular in sub-Saharan Africa since the mid twentieth century.

To the Africans, clave-based Cuban popular music sounded both familiar and exotic.

A fundamental rhythmic figure heard in Gottschalk's compositions such as " Souvenirs From Havana " ( 1859 ), many different slave musics of the Caribbean, as well as the bamboula, and other Afro-Caribbean folk dances performed in New Orleans Congo Square, is the three-stroke pattern known in Cuban music as tresillo.

According to B. Boy Omega, a writer for The Source, the first Latino in hip hop music was DJ Disco Wiz, a product of a Puerto Rican father and a Cuban mother who was born in The Bronx.

Cuban dancers would describe mambo as " feeling the music " in which sound and movement were merged through the body.

The popularized " mambo " in the United States would be viewed as a variant of son or salsa among Cuban dance and music specialists, and would later evolve into a mixture of salsa and rumba that is expressed in clubs and social settings worldwide.

African American music began incorporating Afro-Cuban rhythmic motifs in the 1800s with the popularity of the Cuban contradanza ( known outside of Cuba as the habanera ).

The syncopated, but straight subdivision feel of Cuban music ( as opposed to swung subdivisions ) took root in New Orleans R & B during this time.

The use of clave in R & B coincided with the growing dominance of the backbeat, and the rising popularity of Cuban music in the U. S. In a sense, clave can be distilled down to tresillo ( three-side ) answered by the backbeat ( two-side ).

By the time people began to talk about rock and roll as having a history, Cuban music had vanished from North American consciousness.

** Cascarita Orlando Guerra, Cuban music singer ( d. 1975 )

Haiti has a rich blend of African and European music ; Cuban and Dominican influences also blend to create Haiti's diverse music.

Based on Cuban music ( especially Cuban son and son montuno ) in rhythm, tempo, bass line, riffs and instrumentation, Salsa represents an amalgamation of musical styles including rock, jazz, and other Latin American ( and Puerto Rican ) musical traditions.

* Salsa music, a fusion of Afro-Cuban musical styles based on the Cuban son

Nueva canción largely draws upon Andean music, Música negra, Spanish music, Cuban music and other Latin American folklore.

" Cuban and Dominican immigrants and recent Puerto Rican migrants in New York have used the term analogously to swing or soul music.

For a brief time in the early 1990s a fair number of Cuban musicians embraced the term, calling their own music salsa Cubana.

The bands that were playing in Havana had meanwhile, been steadily evolving into something quite distinctly Cuban, and less like salsa.

In the Canary Islands, Isa, a local kind of Jota, is now popular, and Latin American musical ( Cuban ) influences are quite widespread, especially in the presence of the charango ( a kind of guitar ).

Caught in the middle are the hips which end up moving quite a bit —- famously known as the " Cuban hip movement.

Cuban music experienced quite radical change in the 1960s, as National Geographic notes:

The rhythms of apala grew more complex over time, influenced by Cuban music and eventually became quite popular in Nigeria.

Disgruntled Cuban generals who early had taken their troops into the interior and posed a threat to the U. S. presence were invited by Lawton to participate in local government and in fact, became quite instrumental in establishing and protecting the peace.

However, their procedures were not adapted to Cuban conditions, and as a result, mistakes were made that allowed the U. S. to quite easily learn of the program's existence.

Lecuona's talent for composition has influenced the Latin American world in a way quite similar to George Gershwin in the United States, in his case raising Cuban music to classical status.

Music historian Robert Palmer has noted that the style's influences are quite diverse, and include the Afro-Caribbean " Bo Diddley beat ", elements of " big band swing " and Latin music like the Cuban son and " Mexican rhythms ".