Johnny Colón and Mathew Ramirez Warren on How Boogaloo Paved the Way for Hip-Hop and Punk

Isabelia Herrera — Tue, 15 Mar 2016 17:05:10 +0000

Before hip-hop and punk, there was boogaloo – a quintessentially New York rhythm that defined a generation. Boogaloo was a sound that collided Afro-Cuban rhythms like mambo and cha cha with homegrown blues and R&B. It was a sound forged by Puerto Rican New Yorkers and their African-American neighbors, a sound that cast off genre

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