ABSTRACT
Spanish-American popular musics are hybrids resulting from blending processes known as creolization, mestizaje, and syncretism, which developed in response to the encounter of European, Amerindian, and African cultures. Borrowing and blending have continued to enrich Spanish-American popular musics, most of which draw simultaneously from antecedent folkloric genres (themselves products of cultural blends) and contemporaneous popular musics.
