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The music of New York City is a diverse and important field in the world of music. It has long been a thriving home for popular genres such as jazz, rock, soul music, R&B, funk, and the urban blues, as well as classical and art music.
Latino American Artists and Musicians in NYC. To celebrate the the PBS series, “Latino Americans,” and “Latin Americans of NY & NJ,” both premiering Tuesday, September 17, 2013, on Thirteen, NYC-ARTS shares insights from the area’s artists and performers of Latin American heritage.
Because the majority of Latino immigrants living in New York City in the 1950s were of Puerto Rican or Cuban descent, "Latin music" had been stereotyped as music simply originating from the Spanish Caribbean.
Oct 14, 2022 · Salsa evolved from mambo, which itself had origins in son, an up-tempo urban folk music from eastern Cuba that evolved as it made its way to Havana and then to the clubs and streets of New...
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Pacheco also produced music for feature films. The first film he worked on was the 1972 documentary Our Latin Thing; this was also the first film about the influence of salsa on Latino culture in New York City. His second film Salsa released in 1974. In the 1980s, he composed the scores for Mondo New York and Something Wild.
Sep 19, 2010 · Spanish Harlem. Music tends to fill the streets of Spanish Harlem: the blare of mariachi trumpets playing at a quinceaera, the clack of a salsa band's clave animating Saturday dance parties...
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Dec 10, 2021 · Overview. When the film West Side Story was released in 1961, New York's reviled Puerto Rican community gained some visibility and, over time, both in Spanish Harlem and the Bronx, neighborhoods plagued by poverty, drugs and crime, Hispanic identity was reborn and strengthened, thanks to a syncretic and intentionally popular music that ...
