ABSTRACT
Latino music in the United States today reflects many of the historical and contemporary trends that the people have already mentioned. Latino music has made great headway in making its presence known on the national stage. Brazilians, often counted among the ranks of Latinos in the United States, brought the music of their capoeira ’, played on the berimbao. Spanish immigrants and North Americans of Spanish descent have both been included under the Latino rubric, given their commonalities of language, religion, and values, and excluded because of their origins in Europe, rather than in Latin America. Although the greater volume of Latino music in the United States has largely developed within Latino communities, a significant part of it has become commercially successful and musically highly influential. On the West Coast and in the Southwest, different yet related types of Latino music entered the mainstream of popular music in the United States.
