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Beats of the Heart – Salsa: Latin Pop Music in the Cities

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Studio: Koch International Release Date: 09/16/2003 Run time: 60 minutesAmazon.com
This 1979 documentary profiles the hot Afro-Latin dance music called salsa, a zesty marriage of North American jazz, Puerto Rican bomba/plena, and Cuban mambo, rumba, danzon, and cha-cha-cha rhythms. The music was born in New York in the ’60s and since then, it has served as the musical lingua franca of the Hispanic world. The footage in this film is incredible. You hav… More >>

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