ABSTRACT
Latinx culture has a rich tradition of musical and lyrical creativity and entertainment. Music and dance within the Latinx community has been a commodity within the United States, and crossover success has allowed many Latinx musicians to gain mainstream success and even parlay the breakthroughs into other notable enterprises and business. The Spanish and Portuguese colonists brought with them the music of their countries, and these where brought to bear on the indigenous ritual soundscapes of the Americas. The guitar is the most prominent example of such an instrument, and other stringed instruments such as the Mexican bajo sexto provide distinctive sounds to Latin American music. Music can always sound different from one listening moment to another, and mean radically different things to all who hear it. The rhythms, the instrumentation, the passion of Latinx music is often one of the more acceptable aspects of Latinx culture that tends to work its way past prejudice and questionable borders.
