Latin America has produced a variety of genres born at the crossroads of European folk music, African music and native traditions. While not as popular as the popular music of the USA (also born out of the integration of European music and African music), Latin American genres shares the same characters that made it a universal koine’.

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The term “Latin America” primarily refers to the Spanish and Portuguese-speaking countries in the New World.Before the arrival of Europeans in the late 15th and early 16th centuries, the region was home to many indigenous peoples, a number of which had advanced civilizations, most notably from North to South; the Olmec, Maya, Muisca …

Racial Classifications in Latin America. In the history of Latin America over the last 500 years or so, the relationships among three races have been a key factor.

History of Latin America: History of Latin America, the history of the region from the pre-Columbian period to the 20th century.

General Overviews. There are few, if any, works of synthesis that define the Latin American New Left as more than its armed wing. Unlike established historiographical fields in US or European history that associate the 1960s with a broadly defined New Left, the term is more readily used for Latin America to refer to the recent “pink tide

History of Latin America – Latin America since the mid-20th century: In Latin America as elsewhere, the close of World War II was accompanied by expectations, only partly fulfilled, of steady economic development and democratic consolidation.

Latin America definition, the part of the American continents south of the United States in which Spanish, Portuguese, or French is officially spoken. See more.

Contemporary Latin is the form of the Latin language used from the end of the 19th century through to the present. Various kinds of contemporary Latin can be distinguished. On the one hand there is its survival in areas such as taxonomy as the result of the widespread presence of the language in the New Latin er