New York's Latin music giant Joe Cuba died Sunday at age 78, after a long illness. As prolific as he was influential, Cuba was one of the main pioneers of the Latin soul movement in the 1960s, which ...

Translation of: Cuban fire : musiques populaires d'expression cubaine. NMAH copy 39088020678629 - replacement copy/note: Latino fund. The roots -- From African liturgies to Creole rhythms -- The 1920s ...

The film looks at the rhythmic music that rose from the streets of Spanish Harlem and the Bronx in the ‘60s and merged funk, jazz, R&B and Afro-Cuban sounds. By Melinda Newman, Billboard We Like It ...

Boogaloo. So fun to say, so tricky to define. You've heard it: “Watermelon Man” is probably in your brainpan somewhere, as is “I Like It Like That.” Look for the roots of boogaloo, and you'll wing up ...

The influence of African music is deeply felt in much of the Latin music of the Americas. It's a legacy of the slave trade — the transplantation of myriad African traditions to the Afro-Caribbean and ...

Every generation gives way to a new musical sound that defines their youth identity and cultural influences. For Latinos living in New York City, circa 1960’s in Spanish Harlem, “Boogaloo” was exactly ...

Today I thought I'd do things a little different. Rather than write at length about the history of a sexy Latin music in the mid-1960s that you might not know much about, I figured I'd illustrate its ...

BRATTLEBORO -- The father of Latin Boogaloo, Pucho Brown, will perform with his eight-piece group, the Latin Soul Brothers, at the Vermont Jazz Center in the Cotton Mill on Saturday at 8 p.m. Pucho ...

Better than: Paying twice as much to watch the same crowd drink and not dance. It could have been a disaster—subway service to Loisaida was screwed up (again), it was raining, one of the club’s ...

New York's Latin music giant Joe Cuba died Sunday at age 78, after a long illness. As prolific as he was influential, Cuba was one of the main pioneers of the Latin soul movement in the 1960s, which ...