You know, I majored in Latin Teaching and minored in Spanish Teaching, and as such would always tell people “I’m majoring in Real Latin and minoring in Fake Latin.” And you guys know what that means. “Latin music” on the wikipedia has been redirected to “Latin American Music,” with no disambiguation line. I would add one, if I knew where to link it to.
And that’s the core issue, what is the magical buzzword that refers to Latin in general, or Latin music, which buzzword is not already hijacked by the Cubans? (I’m Cuban, so I can say that.)
It’s tempting to make one up (latina, lingua latina, “real latin,” etc.), but there’s gotta’ be a universal one, no? Isn’t there a whole demographic of people who love to listen to “angry swordfighting music,” a la “carmina burana,” etc.?
I’ll sponsor a last.fm group if we can answer this.
I don’t know of the particular buzz word…I’ve tried to find the same but get overwhelmed by the amount of Latin (as in the tradition) Music that’s out there.
However, if this helps, about 12 years ago, my friend clipped this from a local newspaper (Kansas City Star):
I was in class once, when my professor said “well, it’s the last day of the quarter, and if we had an Elvis in Latin CD we could cancel class and have a party, but since none of you do, here are your assignments.” I did, on me, and brought it out, and while she was shocked, she honored her offer and cancelled class.
Ha! Brilliant! Nothing better than Elvis…except Elvis in Latin!
Well, that’s my knowledge of modern Latin Music.
I do have three CDs of Jan Garbarek…modern but very cool and all in Latin…kind of a cross between Jazz and Liturgical music…it’s interesting and quite good.
