Not what I was expecting

When I came to Spain I had a certain expectation of the music. I first expected it to be all in Spanish and similar to the Spanish music I have heard back home. Like merengue and salsa and bachata however, this is not the case. The music here in a lot of bar are more times then not American songs. Which surprised me because I thought it would be popular music from here in spanish. The first encounter I had with music from Spain was the first weekend here and we went to a bar that had a concert of two bands. It was two rock bands and it was pretty interesting to see how mostly the music was the same. However. the hard part was totally understanding what was going on because it was very loud in the bar. Other then that I had fun. My next experience was the music I heard on the street. This music seemed to be more of music of the town. There are many people playing different typ es of music but i notice a lot of people play the guitar here. It is impressive because back home most of my friends don't know how to play the guitar. There was one time that I saw a guy playing the saxophone however, saxophones here are shaped different then they are shaped in the United States. When I went to the street festival in Santurzi on the street at the different tents with food and a variety of other items they were playing spanish music as well. It was interesting to watch how the people danced to them. Some of the ways people danced to the music seemed like merengue and sals mixed. Other people were just swinging back and forth. We went to a dance club and minus the fact that it was hot in there the people danced like they were dancing to reggaton. The next time I heard music was in class with you carla. You actually taught me the most about Spanish music and the variety of types. I went to the basco museo and they actually sell some music there and the music they have there can be bought as cd/dvds, cds, or they have cassett tapes still. I was surprised at this because when I went to El Corte Ingles all I saw were cds and just assumed that cassettes are not made any more. The music here in general surprised me and made we learn more about music and the products that are still avaliable here in Spain.