Cuban Folk Music: origins and traditions of Salsa and Mambo Folk Music with its music and dance
cultural influences in Latin Jazz and hybrids of various Latin styles have mixed with Pop, Jazz, Rock and R & B
Latin American Folk Music: origins and traditions South American Salsa Folk Music popularized by immigrants coming to New Yok City area have spawned new hybrids of Latin
musical influences
Jamaican Folk Music: origins and traditions of Reggae Folk Music with its characteristically slower beat associated with the Rastafari movement. With its own set of beliefs and lifestyle, Reggae influenced many as- pects of musical influences
Caribbean Folk Music: origins and traditions of Calypso and Zoul Folk
Music with its roots associated to the African slaves who used this music to communicate since they were not allowed to speak
to each other
Celtic Folk Music: origins and traditions of the mythical legends of
King Arthur where Celtic-pagan and Anglo-Christian history enlivened the myths and legends that expanded musical influences
all over the world
American Folk Music: origins
and traditions of American Folk History have evolved prominent music genres from Americana, Alt-Country, Bluegrass, New Grass
and Country Rock
French Folk Music: origins
and traditions of Paris, France where bohemians, artists, poets, revolutionaries, laborers and musicians evolved avant-garde
music styles like Musette, Chanson and Gypsy Jazz
Cajun Folk Music: origins
and traditions of French music of Southwest Louisiana where Cajun, Creole, and Zydeco Folk Music inspired many influences
and movements that evolved with the blending of European, African and Amerindian qualities
Spanish Folk Music:
origins and traditions of Flamenco Folk Music where song, dance and music of the Roma People rooted from the protest
and lifetime of persecution. Spain’s history with its different cultural streams in the first centuries of the Christian
and Roman culture brought the music and ideas of Ancient Greece, early Christians who had their own version of the Roman Rite
and the Visiqoths, a Germanic tribe
African Folk Music: origins
and traditions of many diverse Sub-Saharan Folk Music such as Nigerian Afrobeat and Kenya Benga music with its distinguishing rhythmic and complexity
has spread to other regions, especially to the Americas
