Folk Songs of Puerto Rico / Various

It's all about cultural roots: On this record, the presence of the decima a ballad-like song form often philosophical in nature and the pasodoble a fast Spanish dance that introduces a bull fight and the entrance of the bull fighters reflects the cultural association of the majority Puerto Ricans to their Spanish colonial past. A plena humorous, satirical song of the common man is distinctly Puerto Rican. A guaracha an old-fashioned Afro-Cuban street dance ties Puerto Ricans to their Afro-Caribbean heritage.