Aaron Copland was widely-traveled, especially in the Americas, and in his travels he carried with him a healthy musical curiosity. The result was that he was virtually steeped in the folk tunes and dance rhythms of all the cultures he visited, and was thus able to incorporate them into his own music. "Danzon Cubano" is a good example, brimming with distinctive rhythm and "folkiness". Highly rhythmic, with marked shifts in tempo and meter, it conveys a waltz-like elegance that one doesn’t normally expect when one thinks of Cuba.