Word: porro
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Latin America had a new song rage last week and a dance to go with it. The song was Santa Marta; the dance, the Porro Colombiano. Both seemed likely to follow the rumba and the conga-and other Latin American song hits-north...
...wasn't for the waves, caramba! Santa Marta would die, caramba!* The song's rhythm, moving from the easy to the explosive, is an ideal basis for the Porro Colombiano-a dance suggesting that the Santa Martans have learned some very sinuous slips on their banana peels...
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