Were *** rainbow of people ... exists in the Caribbean and throughout Latin America. "That music, the food, the dance, it's so rooted in the African heritage," said Jacobo Lovo, Managing ...

"The Machito Orchestra, formed by Frank ‘Machito’ Grillo in 1939, combined Afro ... Latin and pop crossover hit and a live performance favorite. It's now recognized as a standard of American ...

“Afro-Latin culture is Latin culture. So much of what people enjoy in Latin America in terms of music, culture, dance, comes out of (Afro-Latin culture), but also infrastructure," Haas say ...

Música y Ritmos, the Latin American ... of Latin music in Hudson County is multi-layered, and multi-generational,” says Juan Cartagena of Segunda Quimbamba. “For our people, music is ...

The organization aims to decolonize the classical music canon by commissioning new works and uplifting the contributions and stories of Afro-Latin American and Afro-Latinx classical composers.

Topics will focus on African descendants and people indigenous to the Americas both separately ... Michael Iyanaga, Associate Professor of Music and Latin American Studies, W & M. • “Slavery’s ...