Salsa music Caribbean, and New York cultures and musics, with no mention of Cuba. In one scene, the Afro-Cuban folkloric genres of batá and rumba are shown being performed in Puerto Rico, implying that they originated there. In advancing the concept of salsa as a musical "sauce", containing many different ingredients from various cultures mixed together, some point to the occasional use of non-Cuban forms in salsa, such as the Puerto Rican bomba. The percentage of salsa compositions based in non-Cuban genres is low though, and despite an openness to experimentation and a willingness to absorb non-Cuban influences, - such as Jazz
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