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Article: En conga, bonga y campana (1): the rise of Colombian salsa.
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- Latin American Music Review
- Article date:
- September 22, 2000
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Salsa is a popular dance music developed in the Latino barrios of New York City and urban centers of Puerto Rico during the 1960s and 1970s. Based largely on Cuban styles of the 1930s, 1940s and 1950s (e.g., son, guaracha, mambo, chachacha), salsa also incorporated Afro-Puerto Rican elements and influences from North American jazz and rock. Through the 1960s and 1970s, as salsa flourished in New York and Puerto Rico, it also spread to other parts of Latin America, especially Venezuela, Panama, and Colombia. The term "salsa" literally means "sauce," a culinary metaphor that evokes images of a spicy concoction--somewhat mirroring the music's own hybrid origins and ...
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