The Melody Web what each genre heard, and what it passed on

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Heard

Salsa genre · 1966–

Timba takes salsa’s jazz-band industry — horn shout, piano montuno, sonero pregón — back onto a Havana floor, then adds kit gears and street lyric.

Influence
Songo genre · 1969–

Timba takes songo’s Havana electric kit grammar — cascara, breakdowns, trombone/keyboard band — and turns the gears louder, with street lyric and jazz-band shout.

Influence

Timba

genre · 1989–

1990s Havana dance music: NG La Banda and related bands take Salsa’s jazz-band shout and montuno industry back onto a Cuban floor, with kit, gear-shifts, and street lyric. It hears Songo for the local electric-kit hinge. Tropi-salsa leftover as a later radio mix. Irakere leftover as a jazz-band mediator, not a second node.

Listen

  1. La expresiva NG La Banda (1989) YouTube · Spotify
  2. Santa palabra NG La Banda (1994) YouTube · Spotify
  3. El muerto se fue de rumba NG La Banda (1990s) YouTube
  4. La candela Irakere (as a hinge) (1970s)
  5. La vida es un carnaval (as later salsa-timba circuit) Celina González / Celia Cruz repertory (1990s) YouTube

Passed on

Nothing in the corpus yet that this genre passed on.

Salsa → Timba

form and structureinstrumentationharmonyperformance practicestrength: mediumscholarly consensus1989–1998recordingoralradio

Mechanism

Timba takes salsa’s jazz-band industry — horn shout, piano montuno, sonero pregón — back onto a Havana floor, then adds kit gears and street lyric. Strength medium. Songo is the 1970s local hinge (left for that node’s sitting); this edge is the NY/salsa book as a named parent of 1990s timba.

Evidence

NG La Banda from 1989; Grove on timba as Havana dance music after salsa; continuity of clave montuno plus jazz-band brass.

Debate

Whether timba is just Cuban salsa. The gears, kit, and Havana lyric world differ; the arranging book is still salsa’s.

Mediators

artist: NG La Banda

Songo → Timba

meter and grooveinstrumentationform and structureperformance practicestrength: highscholarly consensus1989–1998oralrecording

Mechanism

Timba takes songo’s Havana electric kit grammar — cascara, breakdowns, trombone/keyboard band — and turns the gears louder, with street lyric and jazz-band shout. Strength high. salsa timba is the NY book hop; this edge is the local 1970s hinge the last sitting left for this node.

Evidence

NG La Banda players from the Van Van/Irakere circuit; kit gears as named dance cues; Grove on timba after songo.

Debate

Whether timba is only salsa at home. The arranging book is salsa’s; the kit and gear practice is songo’s.

Mediators

artist: Juan Formell; artist: NG La Banda