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Word: antonieta (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1951-1951
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Though mambo has a number of self-styled kings & queens (one of whom, Mexico's flame-haired Maria Antonieta Pons, was already pulling them into a midtown New York nightclub last week), Pérez Prado is its emperor. Discussing his creation, Pérez Prado explains: "I am a collector of cries and noises, elemental ones like seagulls on the shore, winds through the trees, men at work in a foundry. Mambo is a movement back to nature, by means of rhythms based on such cries and noises, and on simple joys...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Hemisphere: The Mambo | 4/9/1951 | See Source »

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