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Spanish Harlem's Musical Legacy

by Silvio H. Alava
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Spanish Harlem's musical development thrived between the 1930s and 1980s in New York City. This area was called El Barrio by its inhabitants and Spanish Harlem by all others. It was a neighborhood where musicians from the Caribbean or their descendants organized musical groups, thereby adding to the diaspora that began in Africa and Spain. The music now called salsa had its roots in Cuba, Puerto Rico, and Santo Domingo, and it continued developing onanother island: Manhattan.

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Series: Images of America Publisher: Arcadia Publishing Inc.

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  • Release date: September 14, 2012

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  • ISBN: 9781439634714
  • Release date: September 14, 2012

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  • ISBN: 9781439634714
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  • Release date: September 14, 2012

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Spanish Harlem's musical development thrived between the 1930s and 1980s in New York City. This area was called El Barrio by its inhabitants and Spanish Harlem by all others. It was a neighborhood where musicians from the Caribbean or their descendants organized musical groups, thereby adding to the diaspora that began in Africa and Spain. The music now called salsa had its roots in Cuba, Puerto Rico, and Santo Domingo, and it continued developing onanother island: Manhattan.

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History Nonfiction
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