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Article: Salsa sin fronteras: (salsa without borders).
- Article from:
- New Life Journal
- Article date:
- February 1, 2007
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When you Google "Salsa" on the Internet, websites relating to both food and dance pop up. Salsa describes the modern Latin music and dance styles as soulful, full-flavored, and spicy. It is a commercial blanket term that classifies the union of most Cuban rhythms (i.e. cha cha cha, mambo, guaguanco, son montuno) with jazz arrangements, giving the music mass popular appeal and a catchy title for fans to remember. Each Cuban rhythm within Salsa music has a corresponding dance, blending these dance steps together to structure modern Salsa. The roots of Salsa reside in Cuba. The development and popularization of Salsa owe Puerto Rican and Cuban musicians in New York a debt of ...