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From the late 1990s, dancers in the Western world started creating novel dance forms inspired by bachata music. The most well-known example of this is the made-up basic step commonly referred to as the "side-to-side step", which is sometimes accompanied by an exaggerated "pop” of the hips during the tap.
Bachata is a genre of music that originated in the Dominican Republic in the 20th century. It contains elements of European (mainly Spanish music), indigenous Taino and African musical elements, representing the cultural diversity of the Dominican population. [1] The form of dance, bachata, also developed with the music. [2]
Bachata arose in the poor and working class areas of the country. During the 1960s and early 1970s, while bachata was known as amargue music, it was seen as music of the lower class by middle-upper-class Dominicans. The genre's popularity rose in the 1980s and early 1990s when the rhythm began to reach the mainstream media.
Beginning in the 1960s, dancing became a part of the singers' work with Johnny Ventura's Combo Show format, and is now a staple of many of the genre's biggest stars. Lyrically, irony and double entendres are common. Merengue continued to be limited in popularity to the lower classes, especially in the Cibao area, in the early 20th century.
Bachata is more recent arrival, arriving in the first half of the 20th century, [8] taking influences from the bolero and derived from the country's rural guitar music. Bachata has evolved and risen in popularity over the last 40 years in the Dominican Republic and other areas (such as Puerto Rico) with the help of artists such as Antony Santos ...
"Bachata: A Social History of a Dominican Popular Music by Deborah Pacini". NWIG: New West Indian Guide. 72 (3/4): 340– 342. JSTOR 41849947. Chasteen, John Charles (1998). "Bachata: A Social History of Dominican Popular Music". Hispanic American Historical Review. 78 (1): 144– 145. - Also at ProQuest; Reily, Suzel Ana (1997).
appearance on Nielsen’s weekly streaming rankings, clocking in with just under 2.6 billion minutes watched in its first four days of availability. That’s nearly double the debut seen by ...
Linda Ronstadt in 1976. Starting in the mid-1980s, Billboard introduced the Top Latin Albums and Hot Latin Tracks charts for Latin music albums and singles. In 1980, Angélica María recorded for the first time in a U. K. studio, making an album of ballads and a single record with two pop songs in English, seeking some kind of crossover.