With strings attached.(string instruments in Puerto Rican popular music)

Latin Beat Magazine | May 1, 2005| | Copyright

String instruments have always been an essential part of Puerto Rican music and culture. It all began with the Spanish settlers who brought with them their lutes, vihuelas, treble guitars (tiples) and traditional Spanish guitars. In their long and lonely passages across the ocean, sailors and prospective settlers found comforting companionship in their string instruments. Once settled in the New World, the players, as well as their instruments, became Creolized. From the mixing of races and musical cultures emerged something new. In Puerto Rico, the Creoles (native-born ...

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