- 1890s:Early variations: Cuban Danzon; Cuban Danzon Recording Session
- 1890s: Early variations: PR Danza by Piano
- PR Danza by Orchestra
- 1920s: Cuban son montuno
- 1920s: Cuban Rhumba
- 1920s Cuban guaracha
- 1930s: Puerto Rican Island guaracha
- 1930s: Puerto Rican band version of plena, by Canario y su Grupo
- 1920s-1930s: PR big bands already in Place in NYC!
- Augusto Coen, from Harlem Jazz to his own band
- Cesar Concepcion brings Plena to the NY Mix…and returns to PR
- Old constant with influence: PR Piano
- Old constant with influence: PR trios
- PR components since 1910s
- First NYC fusion: From NY, Island style Guaracha, Rafael Hernandez
- Plena Recording in NY 1920s and 1930s, returns to PR: Canario
- PRs in Harlem Jazz: Juan Tizol (trombone and composer) with Duke Ellington Band
- Harlem Jazz: Cuban dialogues since 1930s
- Dizzy Gillespie and Machito
- Charlie Parker and Machito
- Cuban Music innovated in 1940s, production and variation peak: 1950s from conjuto to sexteto to septeto to big bands
- The man: growing the band plus a strong baseline: Arsenio Rodriguez
- Big Bands
- Machito and his afrocubans
- 1950s: New York Mambo—big band plus big percussion plus big brass
- Machito
- Tito Puente
- Tito Puente: percussion heavy, dance version
- Tito Rodriguez
- Big band perfection
- Mambo marketing via jazz fusion, early
- Puente and Machito
- Competittion
- Santeria and explicit references to African-descent culture and religion
- Machito
- Pedrito invokes the deities
- ..with the drums
- 1950s: cha cha cha,
- 1960s: The hybrid forms take off in NYC
- 1960s: charanga, from Danzon
- 1960s: pachanga, a marketing device, from charanga
- 1960s: Latin soul and boogaloo
- 1970s: Latin funk
- Latin Bogaloo becomes funky hip hop: Joe Bataan
- 1930s-1970s: Latin Jazz, a constant
- 1950s, 1960s: Cal tjader
- 1960s: Palmieri and Tjader
- 1970s: Ray Barreto
- 1970s, 1980s: Tito Puente
- All mixed together with Jazz: Barreto
- 1970+ Salsa, from all!
- Barreto
- Early: Lavoe with Fania
- High point: ¡!
- Latino Opera: Fusion of all: Hommy (Larry Harlow)
- Manny Oquendo keeps it real: conjunto + charanga + trombones
- Against Salsa: NY goes old school and back to Basics
- All above with English lyrics
- Permanent genres: Merengue
- Permanent genres: Boleros
- Older, 1940s?
- Newer, 1970s
- Post 1980:
- Latin Mixers/samplers and DJ’s
- Hip Hop
- Boy bands: Menudo
- Crossover Latin Pop: Miami Sound Machine,
- Latin House
- Freestyle
- Post 2000
- Latino music is dead…ask me why.