Involves shifting the weight by stepping sideways, causing the hips to move while the upper body remains level.

It has a repetitive melody with an ostinato pattern played by the maracas, claves and other Cuban percussion instruments.

A courtship dance with European and African instrumentation and characteristics, originated in Panama and Columbia.

A ballroom dance that originated in Cuba in the 1950s and derived from the mambo.

Gave rise to other dances such as the black bottom, Charleston, and shimmy.

It developed as the foremost urban song and dance form in the working class areas of Buenos Aires.

A theatrical Spanish dance used by the Spaniards in bullfighting.

An urban popular music and dance style that originated in

Jamaica in the mid- 1960s.

The music contains themes centering on love, women, longing, nature, and youthfulness.