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Rafael-Sanchez, a professor at the University of Puerto Rico at Rio Piedras, is best known in the U.S. for his 1976 novel La guaracha de Macho Camacho (Macho Camacho's Beat...

Author: By Anna D. Wilde, | Title: Committee on Ethnic Studies Invites Filmmaker, Historian | 2/13/1993 | See Source »

...jazz evolved, it continued to borrow heavily on Cuban forms, and in turn Cuban-born musicians such as the late, great Machito, who had played traditional Afro-Cuban popular music as well as jazz, migrated north and began combining Cuban rhythms such as the mambo, guaracha, and son montuno with jazz instrumentation and arranging techniques...

Author: By Kevin Carter, | Title: From Cuba With Love | 1/18/1985 | See Source »

Raul & Eva Reyes claim to have introduced the conga as a ballroom dance. But their specialty is the rumba. Reyes rumbas come in no less than 24 varieties, including the son, guajira, guaracha, punto-guajiro, bolero, bembé, Afro-Cuban, danzón, danza and danzonette. To all these, Raul & Eva bring a sinuous genius. Connoisseurs have risen to cry that when they begin the beguine they absolutely finish...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Raul & Eva | 4/24/1944 | See Source »

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