Music of Puerto Rico centers. After the island was taken over by Spain, the music and dance of Puerto Rico consisted of a combination of the harmonious musical styles that are borrowed from Spanish, African, and other European cultures, creating Puerto Rico's signature style of Latin dance. Salsa is a Spanish word that means sauce. It refers to the mixture of different rhythms composed of different Latin, African and Caribbean dances. Salsa is said to be first created around the 1960s and became popular to the non-Latino world drastically. The salsa dance is similar to the mambo dance. Salsa dancing is structured in six
Music history of the United States early 1970s, using multiple sources from Latin America in the pan-Latin melting pot of the city. Puerto Rican [[plena]] and [[Bomba (Puerto Rico)|bomba]] and Cuban [[Cha-cha-cha (music)|chachacha]], [[son montuno]] and [[Mambo (music)|mambo]] were the biggest influences, alongside [[Jamaica]]n, Mexican, [[Dominican Republic|Dominican]], [[Trinidad]]ian, [[Argentina|Argentinian]], [[Colombia]]n and [[Brazil]]ian sources. Many of the earliest salsa musicians, like [[Tito Puente]], had had a long career in various styles of Latin music. Salsa grew very popular in the 1970s and into the next two decades, spreading south to Venezuela, Colombia, Puerto Rico, Mexico, Peru and especially Cuba. Punk rock arose as a reaction against what