This Friday at 6pm, KAOS joins Timberland Regional Library and The Washington Center for the finale of the six-part, FREE & OPEN TO THE PUBLIC screening series Americas Music. This week - Latin Rhythms from Mambo to Hip Hop will be featured. Evergreen faculty Drew Buchanan and KAOS John Ford will host; with KAOS host guests DJ LuvvaJ, DJ Kalambre and Lady Hawk joining the after-show discussion. Featured excerpts: Latin Music USA, Episode 1: Bridges This film excerpt explores mambo, the Cuban hybrid of traditional danson fused with syncopated Afro-Caribbean rhythms that migrated to New York City from Havana in the 1940s. Further innovated by the great barrio-born Latin band leaders of the time, including Perez Prado and Tito Puente, mambo became a huge music and dance craze that swept the country. From Mambo to Hip Hop: A South Bronx Tale This exuberant documentary celebrates the cultural life of one of America’s worst urban slums in the 1970s, New York’s South Bronx. It was here, home to many Latin performers from mambo’s heyday, that hip hop originated. In the devastation of the South Bronx in the 1970s, gang participation was almost total. This film excerpt begins in 1973, when gang leaders held a peace conference to decry the inhuman conditions they lived under. Through candid and often humorous interviews with hip hop’s founding artists and performers, including Kid Freeze, D.J. Charlie Chase, Popmaster Fabel Pabon and Bom 5, the film demonstrates how hip hop, like mambo before it, both reflected and defied the ghetto status and economic deprivation of its creators.
Posted on: Fri, 02 May 2014 15:43:49 +0000
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