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First things first. I feel that I need to reply to the previous moron’s review. A person named Garcia should really do some deep gaze, not only on Latin Music but also on his/her fill Latin culture. To say that Selena brought Latin music to the awareness of the American and Hispanic people is a travesty and an insult to pioneers like Richie Valens, Desi Arnaz, Celia Cruz, Xavier Cougat, Santana and the list goes on and on. Please Garcia, try to sound somewhat shiny and don’t sound off at all. Thank you!
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That off my chest, I give this series 5 stars. It has been presented well with research and documentation. It truly gives the background through the eyes of the artists themselves and those who worked with them. It shows how Mexican-Americans, Puerto Ricans, Cubans and others influenced the Latino music culture in the U.S. I watched this series on PBS and I highly recommend it whether you are Hispanic, African-American, Anglo or any other culture that wants to secure out the background to one of the tremendous music genres that melt in to the huge American music melting pot.
This four-part, four-hour documentary was shown over various PBS stations around the country. In some cities – Philadelphia, for instance – they only aired the last two parts – since these camouflage rock and roll and the spacious crossover artists like Serena and Ricky Martin. But here you procure the whole tale from the beginning. Actually the series doesn’t quite commence with the earliest years. In a clever, and successful, grief to intention non-Hispanics into the sage, writer/director Daniel McCabe (obviously not Latin) uses Carlos Santa’s performance at Woodstock as the opening shot. This episode, titled “Bridges”, then takes the viewer encourage to the artists who came to the US from Puerto Rico and Cuba and planted the seeds of a musical movement which now garners its acquire Grammy Awards present on prime time TV.
Earlier this year I reviewed an honorable – though worthy shorter – DVD documentary, “From Mambo to Hip Hop”, and gave it five stars. Then this DVD came out and now I’ve seen two five-star productions on this often overlooked subject.
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There is literally something here for literally everyone, though pop and jazz are the prime focus. There’s not distinguished here on those artists who brought used Latin folk music to the US and kept it in the same beget. The emphasis is on how the Latin music melded with the American musical culture to construct something recent. There will be some surprises for most who only know the definite Latin acts like Martin, Richie Valens, Celia Cruz, Ruben Blades and Prez Prado. The moment for me was learning of the Fillmore’s Bill Graham’s Latin heritage and why, and how, he booked Carlos Santana. You’ll regain your hold discoveries.
The only bonus features on the DVD are two VERY brief sections on Selena’s father and a fairly slow fraction watching Latin hip-hopper Daddy Yankee sitting around. I’m not even certain why these were included. But, the four hours of the accurate of the series are enough to build this required viewing for any music lover and it belongs in every high school and university music library. It’ll be a long time before this subject is covered this well, and this moral again!
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