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The (constant) Latin Presence. in American popular music. Afro-Cuban jazz. Constant contact and cultural exchange between Cuba, New Orleans, New York up to revolution Influences as early as ragtime U.S. big-band swing & jazz era, 1940s-1950s Dizzy Gillespie & Chano Pozo , “Manteca,” 1947.
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The (constant) Latin Presence in American popular music
Afro-Cuban jazz • Constant contact and cultural exchange between Cuba, New Orleans, New York up to revolution • Influences as early as ragtime • U.S. big-band swing & jazz era, 1940s-1950s • Dizzy Gillespie & Chano Pozo, “Manteca,” 1947
1950s – “Latin” or “tropical” music • I Love Lucy, 1951-1960, and then syndication forever (clip, 6 min) • Tito Puente, “Mambo Gozon”1958 timbales
1950s – early rock’n’roll • Richie Valens, “La Bamba,” 1958 youtube • Buddy Holly “Not Fade Away” 1957 youtube • clavé rhythm (compare to Cuban rumba) • Bo Diddley, “Bo Diddley,” 1955 youtube • Surf music examples
early 1960s – still there, under all that rock • West Side Story (Broadway, 1957; hit film & soundtrack album, 1961) (Dudamel 2007) • The Beatles “And I Love Her” or “I’m Just Happy to Dance with You” from Hard Day’s Night, 1964 • #2 album in 1964 – Getz/Gilberto bossa nova Astrud!
1970 • Santana, “Oye Como Va” 1970 (Garofalo p. 215) youtube • Tito Puente, “Oye Como Va”, 1963 youtube
late 70s & the 80s • Salsa emerges as a genre; influence on disco (percussion breaks, which will later show up in rap) • Gloria Estefan (Miami Sound Machine)