Habanera becomes Cuba’s first global dance export

1850-01-01 · 1850

By the mid-1800s the habanera had left Havana dance halls and become the first Cuban rhythm Europe took as its own. It belongs to the same family as contradanza, danza, and danzón. “son, rumba, contradanza, danza, danzón, habanera, punto guajiro, canción” — Ted Henken, music historian, “From Son to Salsa,” Latin American Research Review 41, no. 3 (2006), p. 186.

Genres: Habanera