What are the biggest cultural differences between South American and North American music?

For the different aspects of North American and South American music culture let's make a few analysis of North America is a very large area, the formation of music there are many factions. I think the main ones are as follows:

1 The music of the Indians: it is the earliest music in North America, and it is indigenous music.

2 White traditional music, English, Irish, French, etc... It was brought by immigrants.

3 Western music, this may be the native music of the United States, is the western immigrants in the process of production and development of the creation, and country life has a great deal to do.

4 black music, is the United States black people in the 1960s after the formation of a musical style. As for South America, it is a continent of many ethnic groups, and its rich folk music makes musicians draw inspiration from it. Now summarize what I know of the South American music style and its representative regions: (1) Samba (Samba)

Samba originated in Brazil, it is based on the American rhythms of the black people, a large number of melody into the European and the resulting form of dance music. It is characterized by a 2/4 beat, with short rolling rhythms of notes. Traditional samba can be categorized into rural samba and urban samba. Rural samba is more syncopated than urban samba, and urban samba has fewer rhythmic changes, but is quick and dexterous. The modern samba popular in Europe and America was formed in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil around 1920. The traditional rumba has a moderate tempo of about 40 to 50 beats per minute, usually 4/4 beats, and later a fast 2/4 beat rumba. (3) Mambo

The mambo, a combination of rumba and swing in jazz. It was formed around 1940 and became popular worldwide in the 1940s and 1950s. The bands that play mambo music are usually large. The bands include brass, saxophone, piano, bass and other instruments commonly used in rock bands, as well as Latin American percussion instruments such as sandballs, rattles and conga drums. The composition of the music is often based on fixed bass and chord sequences. (4) Salsa

Salsa, a dance music that combines Cuban black music, American jazz and South American folk music, originated in the U.S. in the 1940s, and evolved in the 1950s and 1960s to reach its peak of popularity in the mid-1970s. The rhythmic instruments of salsa are still dominated by Latin American percussion instruments, such as the sand ball, rattles, conga drums, bongo drums, etc. The basic rhythmic pattern is similar to that of mambo, cha-cha-cha. The basic rhythmic pattern is similar to the mambo and cha-cha-cha, but a two-bar rhythmic pattern in salsa is unique: 4/4 beat, × × × × | 0 × × × 0 0 |. Traditional salsa music often consists of a mambo section with a fixed motive that is repeated over and over again. (5) Cha Cha (Cha Cha)

Following the rumba, mambo and other Latin dance music, Cha Cha became popular in Europe and the United States in the mid-to-late 1950s. Cha Cha, from the Cuban folk music Charangas (Charangas). Its basic rhythmic pattern is × × × × × × |, played with sand balls, rattles and other Latin American percussion instruments to strengthen the last three accents.

(6) Tango

Tango, which originated from the Cuban Habanera dance, has been popularized as a representative of Argentine music. It is characterized by a swaying rhythm in 2/4 time and usually consists of two sections, the first in minor mode and the second in major mode. Tango is also sung with guitar accompaniment. The general tango band consists of violin, accordion, piano, double bass and other instruments, and the button accordion is an indispensable instrument in the tango band. Its basic rhythmic pattern is: ××××× | / |. There are also the following styles are also very personalized Latin music, such as Bolero (Bolero), Guaracha (Guaracha), Habanera, Song (Son), Guajira (Guajira), Tanzanian (Danzon), etc.: Bolero (Mediterranean and the Caribbean) The Spanish Bolero is a 3/4 beat, and in Cuba it becomes a 2/4 beat The characteristics of Shorro (Brazil) It is a collection of various European music (waltz, minuet, polka, etc.) but with a sad, crying connotation in it (as anyone who has studied Portuguese knows), with a fast tempo and an accent on the 16th note. Finally, a quote from N. Slonimsky's Music of Latin (South) America: melodically, "the Indians provided the basic pentatonic scale pattern, the influence of the European colonizers was felt in the extension of the scale and the addition of chords, and the Negroes added the modification of the altered tones. In metre and rhythm, the Indians insisted on short phrases with long rests, accompanied by monotonous drumming. Colonial rhythms were predominantly Spanish, typified by a double meter of 3/4 and 6/8, resulting in characteristic staggered rhythms in the center of the bar. The Negro influence is the addition of syncopation within a nearly constant 2/4 beat." These are the different characteristics of the musical aspects of South America and North America, just for the owner's information.