The first of a four-part series revealing the deep musical and social impact of Latin music in the USA.\n\nThe massive success of Santana's innovative Latin-blues at the Woodstock Festival leads back in time to the first Cuban immigrants arriving, with their Afro-Cuban music, into the States. Using feature film clips, rare archive and location filming, the programme examines how Afro-Cuban music has impacted - since early last century - on jazz, pop rhythms and dance styles. \n\nFrom Cuban rumba to New York mambo, Latin music enthralled 1950s America, challenging racial attitudes and changing the stereotypes projected in movies like West Side Story. It influenced Hollywood, TV sitcoms and 60s rock 'n' roll, as the Beatles and many American R&B bands absorbed Latin rhythms into the wider worlds of rock music, fashion and culture. \n\nFeaturing Carlos Santana, Cachao, Tito Puente, Dizzy Gillespie and the greatest names in Afro-Cuban music.
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The last in a four-part series revealing the deep musical and social impact of Latin music in the USA looks at how Latin pop was born in Miami, created by Cuban immigrants fleei ...
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3. Borderlands
The third in a four-part series revealing the deep musical and social impact of Latin music in the USA follows the historic waves of immigration across the often violent borderl ...
04-05-2018
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The second in a four-part series revealing the deep musical and social impact of Latin music in the USA.\n\nFilmed in Cuba, Puerto Rico and New York City, it reveals the untold ...
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The first of a four-part series revealing the deep musical and social impact of Latin music in the USA.\n\nThe massive success of Santana's innovative Latin-blues at the Woodsto ...
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BBC 4