A dance-oriented music genre popular throughout Latin America which began as a courtship dance practiced among the African population on the Caribbean coasts of Colombia and Panama but later mixed with Amerindian and European instruments, steps, and musical characteristics.
A genre of music that is based largely on Cuban, Puerto Rican, and Dominican popular dance music, occasionally incorporating elements of rock, R&B, and funk.
A genre of Caribbean music that originated in Trinidad and Tobago in the late 1970s as an offshoot of kaiso and calypso, with influences from cadence, funk, and soul.
A type of music and dance developed in Angola in the 1980s sampled from traditional Caribbean carnival music and Angolan semba around a fast, energetic 4/4 beat.