Celia Cruz was is the most famous and influential woman in Latin music and what became La Salsa. She is remembered as the "The Queen of Salsa," although to our ear she is more naturally a rumbera. Her career follows the development of Latin music from Rumba and Changüi to Son Cubano with La Sonora Matancera, to Pachanga (Salsa Cuban-style) with Tito Puente in New York, to … [Read more...] about Remember Celia Cruz, “The Queen of Salsa” Who More Than Anyone Popularized Latin Music Around the World
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New York City’s 1980s Rebound Revolutionized the Music World(s)
The multimedia exhibition New York, New Music: 1980-1986 opens at the Museum of the City of New York in "El Barrio" East Harlem on Friday, June 11, 2021. mcny.org #80sMusicNYC After peaking in power and influence in the 1950s, social change, civil unrest, the pull of the suburbs, the building of the Cross Bronx Expressway, and the development of public housing put New … [Read more...] about New York City’s 1980s Rebound Revolutionized the Music World(s)
Mundos Alternos
Mundos Alternos: Art and Science Fiction in the Americas is at the Queens Museum in Flushing Meadows Corona Park, Wednesday-Sunday, April 7 - August 18, 2019. From $4 Mundos Alternos: Art and Science Fiction in the Americas Mundos Alternos means alternate worlds. Unlike "alternate facts," our alternate worlds are very real. At least they are real for us. The … [Read more...] about Mundos Alternos