Ep 173: Latin Booms, Part 1
Every so often, Latin rhythms - read, Afro-Latino rhythms - make it to the U.S. mainstream. And yet, with few exceptions, these \u201cLatin booms\u201d present something very particular: a whitewashed yet racialized exotic designed for white consumption. In our two-part series on Latin Booms, we explore the booms and the busts, the times in between, and whether we see a different future ahead for Latin music. This week, the 1950s mambo craze and the weird era - between the mambo craze\u2019s death post-Cuban revolution and the 90s Latin explosion - that brought us from Santana to the Miami Sound Machine. \n\nFeaturing music by Machito and his Afro-Cuban Orchestra, P\xe9rez Prado, Santana, the Miami Sound Machine, and Carmen Miranda.\n\nShow notes: https://bit.ly/35lYGU5\n\nBecome a Radio Menea member: bit.ly/2s2RQhS\n\nFollow us:\ninstagram.com/RadioMenea\ntwitter.com/RadioMenea\ntinyletter.com/RadioMenea