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Styles
Seven styles, what each one is built from and how fast it moves.
Reggaeton
Puerto Rico and Panama
The dembow pattern that built modern Latin pop
Bachata
The Dominican Republic
Guitar music from the Dominican countryside
Salsa
New York City, from Cuban and Puerto Rican roots
Big-band Caribbean dance music organised around the clave
Cumbia
The Caribbean coast of Colombia
A walking two-beat pulse that travelled the whole continent
Merengue
The Dominican Republic
The fastest straight-ahead dance music on the list
Kizomba
Angola
Slow Angolan dance music sung mostly in Portuguese
Cubaton
Cuba
Reggaeton rebuilt with Cuban rhythm and Cuban phrasing
