From Mambo to Hip Hop
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Actor: Angel Rodriguez, Bobby Sanabria, Ray Barretto, Rock Steady Crew, Willie ColonBrand: Music Video Dist
DVD: Region Code 0
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language)
Format: Color, DVD, NTSC
Picture Format: 1.33:1
Running Time: 56 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2009-03-24
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Studio: City Lore
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- There's a postage stamp of urban sidewalk known by people of a certain age for having burned to the ground. A more recent generation knows it as the place where hip hop was born. An older generation remembers the time that this turf nurtured the hot New York Latin music sound that came to be known as salsa. From Mambo to Hip Hop: A Bronx Tale is an hour-long documentary that tells a story abou
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Movie Review: SUPERB Latin Public TV doc Latin Music in the Bronx from 50s to 90s
Summary: 5 Stars
This well-crafted hour-long documentary - produced in conjunction with NYC's City Lore project and Latino Public TV - traces the music of the South Bronx, where Puerto Ricans who emigrated from Puerto Rico to the South Bronx in the 1950s and 60s merged their music with the African-Americans who moved in during the 1970s to create the original hip-hop movement of break dancing, scratching and B Boys. The first half focuses on the Mambo legends like Tito Puente - who was a mambo dancer before he became a band leader. As we learn from the interviews, "drugs came to the Bronx in 1953. It was the beginning of the end of the community". Dance halls disappeared and gangs abounded. Finally the gangs came together with a common goal: to dance and create music all their own. There was Grandmaster Flash, and The Rock Steady Crew. DJ Charlie Chase, a Latino, tells how he started. And there's a great soundtrack to take you through the story.
As a bonus, there's 67 minutes of "bonus interviews" with folks like Eddie Palmieri, Benny Bonilla, and more.
Long before RAP as we know it today, and the whole industry run by Russell Simmons and Def Jam (the "commercial side of hip-hop") there were kids who just wanted to party and make some music. This is the best film I've seen which tells the story concisely and accurately, from the mouths of those who were there. Highly recommended!
Steve Ramm
"Anything Phonographic"
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