When the Spirits Dance Mambo: Growing Up Nuyorican in El Barrio by Marta Moreno Vega

When the Spirits Dance Mambo: Growing Up Nuyorican in El Barrio

Marta Moreno Vega

280 pages • first pub 2004 (editions)

nonfiction memoir emotional reflective medium-paced
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When rock and roll was transforming American culture in the 1950s and '60s, East Harlem pulsed with the sounds of mambo and merengue. Instead of Elvis and the Beatles, Marta Moreno Vega grew up worshipping Celia Cruz, Mario Bauza, and Arsenio Rodr...

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