Spanish Music
For this blog, I decided to focus on the music of Spain. Throughout high school, I took five years of Spanish language and I was always very interested in the culture as I was learning it. My interest in this culture is the reason I chose to focus on it. In my Spanish class, we would translate a song every Wednesday, but we never went too deep into the music culture. I always liked the songs that were played and was interested in learning more. Spanish music has influences from many different cultures. It has roots from music from Greece and instruments from that of Arabic music. In the Renaissance period, the music culture grew immensely adding different vocal features and other instrument influences. The Renaissance also brought some new influence from other European countries. During the twentieth century, dictator Francisco Franco had the intent to create a more uniform country. He banned all regional literature, language and music. Although the music was banned an...