Comments on: From Mambo to Hip Hop http://www.limburgsalsacongress.com/from-mambo-to-hip-hop.html Learn more about Shopping Online the Amazon's Largest Products for Salsa Dance Sun, 11 Dec 2011 20:35:49 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Steven I. Ramm http://www.limburgsalsacongress.com/from-mambo-to-hip-hop.html#comment-246 Steven I. Ramm Sat, 01 May 2010 09:28:34 +0000 http://www.limburgsalsacongress.com/from-mambo-to-hip-hop.html#comment-246 This well-crafted hour-long documentary - produced in conjunction with NYC's City Lore project and Latino Public TV - traces the music of the South Bronx, where Puerto Ricans who emigrated from Puerto Rico to the South Bronx in the 1950s and 60s merged their music with the African-Americans who moved in during the 1970s to create the original hip-hop movement of break dancing, scratching and B Boys. The first half focuses on the Mambo legends like Tito Puente - who was a mambo dancer before he became a band leader. As we learn from the interviews, "drugs came to the Bronx in 1953. It was the beginning of the end of the community". Dance halls disappeared and gangs abounded. Finally the gangs came together with a common goal: to dance and create music all their own. There was Grandmaster Flash, and The Rock Steady Crew. DJ Charlie Chase, a Latino, tells how he started. And there's a great soundtrack to take you through the story. <br /> <br />As a bonus, there's 67 minutes of "bonus interviews" with folks like Eddie Palmieri, Benny Bonilla, and more. <br /> <br />Long before RAP as we know it today, and the whole industry run by Russell Simmons and Def Jam (the "commercial side of hip-hop") there were kids who just wanted to party and make some music. This is the best film I've seen which tells the story concisely and accurately, from the mouths of those who were there. Highly recommended! <br /> <br /> <br /> <br />Steve Ramm <br />"Anything Phonographic" <br /> Rating: 5 / 5 This well-crafted hour-long documentary – produced in conjunction with NYC’s City Lore project and Latino Public TV – traces the music of the South Bronx, where Puerto Ricans who emigrated from Puerto Rico to the South Bronx in the 1950s and 60s merged their music with the African-Americans who moved in during the 1970s to create the original hip-hop movement of break dancing, scratching and B Boys. The first half focuses on the Mambo legends like Tito Puente – who was a mambo dancer before he became a band leader. As we learn from the interviews, “drugs came to the Bronx in 1953. It was the beginning of the end of the community”. Dance halls disappeared and gangs abounded. Finally the gangs came together with a common goal: to dance and create music all their own. There was Grandmaster Flash, and The Rock Steady Crew. DJ Charlie Chase, a Latino, tells how he started. And there’s a great soundtrack to take you through the story.

As a bonus, there’s 67 minutes of “bonus interviews” with folks like Eddie Palmieri, Benny Bonilla, and more.

Long before RAP as we know it today, and the whole industry run by Russell Simmons and Def Jam (the “commercial side of hip-hop”) there were kids who just wanted to party and make some music. This is the best film I’ve seen which tells the story concisely and accurately, from the mouths of those who were there. Highly recommended!

Steve Ramm

“Anything Phonographic”

Rating: 5 / 5

]]> By: doc Storm http://www.limburgsalsacongress.com/from-mambo-to-hip-hop.html#comment-245 doc Storm Sat, 01 May 2010 07:05:21 +0000 http://www.limburgsalsacongress.com/from-mambo-to-hip-hop.html#comment-245 Very interessing stuff, a real good documentary aboute the hip hop origin in New York <br />Really appreciated Rating: 5 / 5 Very interessing stuff, a real good documentary aboute the hip hop origin in New York

Really appreciated
Rating: 5 / 5

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