Salsa: The Barrio as Big Band
Timbales, the piano tumbao, and the dancer as co-composer.
The curation thesis
New York turned Cuban forms into a city sound. We map the bands that made the montuno a neighborhood parliament.
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The list
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El Barrio
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Fania All
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Salsa
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Conjunto
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Tite Curet
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The Message
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Anacaona
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Songo
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New York turned Cuban forms into a city sound. We map the bands that made the montuno a neighborhood parliament.
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