The music of Aragon has through history absorbed Roman,

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ic,

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and

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influences, much like its culture. Traditional instruments used in the region include bagpipes, drums, flutes, tambourines,

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s and, perhaps most distinctively, the guitarro and bandurria. Jota (music) is the best-known style of music from

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. While regionally emblematic to Aragon, the Jota is also danced in most regions of Spain, unlike for instance flamenco which until recently was uniquely regional to Andalucia and some neighbouring areas. The Jota is played instrumentally, danced, and sung. Other genres of traditional Aragonese music include albadas and rondas. Some of the most notable Spain cupletistas were born in Aragon in the first decades of the 20th century.

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became a major international star. Other important cupletistas included

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, Paquita Escribano, Matilde Aragón, Mercedes Serós, one of the creators of the Catalan couplet, Ofelia de Aragón and Elvira de Amaya. Recent artists with folk influences include José Antonio Labordeta, La Bullonera or Joaquín Carbonell. In

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and

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, the most popular groups have been Héroes del silencio and Amaral.

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