“One good thing

about music, when it

hits – you feel no pain.”
- Bob Marley
 LATIN
AMERIC
AN
 LATIN AMERICA
• The official languages are
Spanish, Portuguese, and
French.
• It is a part of the Western
Hemisphere, south of the United
States in Mexico, Central
America, South America, and the
West Indies.
 LATIN AMERICAN MUSIC
• It is highly syncretic in nature.
• This means that it is a fusion of different
music cultures encompassing a wide
diversity of styles.
• The musical genres are Cumbia,
Pasodoble, Tango, Cha-cha-cha, Bossa
Nova, Reggae, Calypso, Samba, and
Rumba.
 CUMBIA
• It is a musical style that came
from the coastal region of
Colombia.
• It started as a courtship dance
among Africans, but later was
combined with the steps of the
American-Indians.
 PASODOBLE

• It is a Spanish term that

literally means “double step”.
• This lively dance is performed
to the music used during the
entrance of the bullfighter to
the ring.
 TANGO

• It is a Latin American dance

form that originated in the
lower class districts of
Buenos Aires.
 CHA-CHA-CHA
• Also known as cha-cha.
• This Latin American dance is of
Cuban origin.
• The dance name is derived from
the sound of the scraper and the
rhythm of the shuffling feet of the
dancers.
 BOSSA NOVA
• The term bossa nova literally means
“new trend”.
• The word bossa in Brazil means that
something is performed in a natural,
skillful way.
• Bossa Nova is a Brazilian musical genre
formed from the fusion of samba
rhythm and the complex harmonies
and improvised passage of jazz.
 REGGAE
• It is a musical style that is developed
in Jamaica in the late 1960s.
• This genre evolved from such earlier
styles of ska (a musical genre with
elements from Caribbean mento,
calypso, American jazz and RnB) and
rocksteady (a Jamaican musical genre
developed after ska).
 SAMBA

• It is a dance genre from

Brazil of African origin.
• It is characterized by lively,
rhythmical movement in
2/4 time.
 RUMBA

• This dance term may refer to

the Afro-Cuban rumba or the
ballroom rumba.
• Afro-Cuban rumba is a group
of dances associated with the
Afro-Cuban music.
 “There is only you and
your camera. The
limitations in your
photography are in
yourself, for what we see
is what we are.”
– Ernst Haas
DIGIT
AL
ART
Art is dynamic, it is ever changing.
Artists are always trying to find
new ways to create and express
themselves, and one way of doing
this is through the use of
technology.
One of the most commonly used
technology-based medium in art is
digital technology.
 DIGITAL
TECHNOLOGIES
• These are electronic devices
that use binary code
combinations to store and
process data.
• Common examples of digital art
are seen in computer art and
multimedia art.
 TOOLS FOR
DIGITAL ART
• If the painter has his paints and
brushes to express his art.
Digital artists employ a number
of tools to create their
artworks. Here are some of the
most common tools used by
digital artists.
 TOOLS FOR
DIGITAL ART

•COMPUTERS
•CELLULAR/MOBILE
PHONES
•DIGITAL CAMERAS
 COMPUTER
• The most commonly used tool in
digital art.
• The hardware are the physical
tools used in digital art which
typically includes the CPU, the
monitor, keyboard, the mouse and
the printer.
• The software are computer
programs that help an artist create
his art.
• These are data or applications that
exist as data in the computer.
• Unlike the computer hardware,
the software can be copied,
updated, corrupted, or even
deleted.