Word: beate
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...drum choir of congas, bongos and timbales sets up a spiky beat punctuated by rattling maracas and a shower of cowbells. A pair of trumpets blasts off in the brass brigade. At the center of the excitement a small, bearded figure huddles over the piano, sweat pouring off his face. Eddie Palmieri attacks the keyboard with fingers, forearms and chin before a sellout crowd at Manhattan's Avery Fisher Hall...
...name of the sound is salsa, as in salsa picante-Spanish for hot sauce. As anyone who can tell tamales from timbales knows, salsa is guaranteed to open up nerve endings. From Boston to Miami, young Hispanics are picking up the beat. In recent years Latin music programs have been smash hits at New York's Madison Square Garden and Yankee Stadium. There is an embryonic curiosity about salsa on the pop scene too, among fans who are no longer charmed by recycled golden oldies-Bobby Vinton's Beer Barrel Polka, for example-or who prefer music that...
...Spoons. Salsa is urban music, born on hot summer nights on city rooftops and streets where kids make music drumming on mailboxes and the sides of cars, or hitting an empty beer can with a wooden spoon. The glue that holds it all together is clave, a continuous 3/2 beat tapped out on a pair of hollow sticks. Musicians sprinkle percussive accents around the clave and layer complicated rhythms on top of it: bands like to get six or eight going simultaneously. But it is the continuous clave beat that starts feet moving, hands clapping, and prevents aural chaos...
...culturists (and cultists) to strip-mine the country-and-western field for meaningful nuggets that will help explain us to ourselves. That, too, is something Avildsen neatly avoids. Instead, he gives us the movie equivalent of the kind of song the Dancekings themselves might feature. It has a catchy beat and a clear emotional appeal. Easy to watch, the film is also easy to forget-but very pleasant and unpretentious...
...captain Ruth Tringham and Dells Flores both said yesterday that the team had expected to win the tournament. "Since we beat the regular teams, we expected to beat the very new teams." Tringham said...