General purpose: To inform

Speech goal: I want to let the audience know about the general characteristics and features of the Cuban Music.

1. Introduction
1. Have you ever listened to real Cuban music?
2. Most of the people enjoy listening to music, and many enjoy dancing. That is because music constitutes a stage of a pleasure for human beings.
3. Today I will talk about some main features of the Cuban music.
2. Body
1. One interesting aspect in Cuban music is its history.
1. The roots and origins come from Europe and Africa.
1. Most forms of the present day are creolized fusions and mixtures of these two great sources. Large numbers of African slaves and European (mostly Spanish) immigrants came to Cuba and brought their own forms of music to the island.
2. The two strains Cuban Popular Music most directly influenced by the European music are the Son and the Danzón, The most common Afro-Cuban music in Cuba are Yoruba or Santeria, Abakua, and Palo.
2. Since the nineteenth century new native rhymes were created as a result of those fusions
1. The Danzon originated from the Contradanza, a European-based popular dance brought to the Island by French immigrants.
2. This rhythm evolved several years ago to incorporate Son, giving rise to the development of new rhythms such as cha-cha-cha. Son developed in eastern rural areas of Cuba around the turn of the twentieth century, but traces of it date back to the 1700s.
3. Afro-Cuban rhythms and percussion instruments were added, creating new forms such as Salsa, Rumba and Mambo.
2. Rhythms of the popular Cuban music
1. Cuban rhythms have certain general characteristics common to all of them.
1. Most of the popular rhythms of Cuban music are based on a rhythmic pattern known as the clave. Clave is the basic building block of all Cuban music, and is a 3-2 (occasionally 2-3) rhythmic pattern
2. Today, popular Cuban music and dance styles include salsa, son, rumba, mambo, and cha-cha-cha.
1. Son is a distinctly Afro-Cuban musical style because it uses an African rhythm (also called son), Spanish poetic styles in the lyrics, and the use of plucked instruments (including guitars)
2. Salsa is derived from Son, but is faster. There are many different kinds of salsa music. Cuban salsa is now days called Timba.
3. The rumba music and dance style is also derived from African music and has three main divisions: the yambú, the guaguancó, and the columbia.
4. The mambo, which appeared in the 1930s and 1940s, also uses African rhythms but with an elements from Jazz
5. Cha-cha-cha, a slower version of the mambo, appeared in the early 1950s. Because its rhythms are simpler than the mambo, and it is easier to dance, the cha-cha-cha became popular very quickly.
3. Conclusion
1. Authentic Cuban music has its roots in European as well as in African rhythms. Both of these sources have evolved progressively so that moust forms of the present day are fusions and mixtures of these two great sources.
2. The most representative and popular genders of the Cuban music are Danzon, Son, Mambo, Cha-Cha-Cha and Salsa, the last three containing important elements from the Afro-Cuban rhythms and instruments.
3. Cuban music has had a tremendous role in influencing world music. Among the most representative world famous Cuban musicians are Septeto Nacional, Perez Prado, Benny Bore, Celia Cruz and Buena Vista Social Club. I hope that after this presentation, you will be wishing to go home and play and dance a delicious Cuban Salsa.