The Latin Tinge: The Impact of Latin American Music on the United States (Kindle Edition)

The Latin Tinge: The Impact of Latin American Music on the United States

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When it comes to 20th-century American pop music, “virtually all of the major popular forms–Tin Pan Alley, stage, and film music, jazz, rhythm and blues, country music, and rock–have been affected throughout their development by the idioms of Brazil, Cuba, or Mexico.” So writes eminent musicologist John Storm Roberts of the often-overlooked role that Latin American rhythms, musical forms, and musicians have played in shaping American culture. The Latin (more…)

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