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Originally posted by Bruce Lindfield
This would be my understanding as well - but I suppose what I was really questioning was this term being applied to music rather than people.
So - I have loads of books about/CDs of this type of music and have never heard this term applied in this context. So - the music is often generalised as "latin" or even "latino" music, but never as "hispanic" music. My view is that this term could be applied to people who speak spanish, but not the music. |
Just for curiosity about this topic because I lived three years in Brazil and eight in Venezuela, I did a search on AOL using the term "Hispanic Music" and came up with numerous references to Hispanic Music including the Hispanic Music Awards.
I take the usage to be similar to say "American music", meaning music played in the Americas. Hispanic music would then be music played and enjoyed by those of Hispanic origin (or others who like it.) Russian music would be music played and enjoyed by Russians and, if sung, would be in the Russian language. Just examples.
In all fairness, the same search turned up Latin music and Latino music. It seems the terms Hispanic, Latin and Latino are almost interchangeable.
If the original poster meant Afro-Cuban than, of course, Brazilian samba and bossa nova would be ruled out. But Brazilian music most definitely does have an African component, even if the language is Portuguese.
