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Mi Gente: Fania Records & New York Salsa Music
What is Fania Records, and how does it reflect the history of Spanish-speaking Caribbean communities in New York City?
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What is Fania Records, and how does it reflect the history of Spanish-speaking Caribbean communities in New York City?
What is the influence of Brazilian music and culture in the United States?
What is the history behind Puerto Rican migration to New York City in the 1940s and 1950s, and how did Puerto Rican migration affect American Popular Music?
How do Langston Hughes, Gladys Bentley, and Louis Armstrong effectively write personal narratives about living during the Harlem Renaissance?
How have works of literature and music by Black Americans shared an empowering theme of identifying and resisting Jim Crow?
How does Langston Hughes’ Blues-inspired poetry exemplify the ideals of the Harlem Renaissance?
What was NASA’s Apollo program and why was it controversial?
How have Black artists throughout the 20th century used music to speak about racial injustice in America?
Why might people dance, and how have dance trends changed in America since the 1920s?
How did the electrification, amplification and design of the guitar facilitate its emergence as a dominant instrument of popular music?
How did the development of microphones in the 20th century change the way people make and listen to music?
How did multitrack recording technologies enable musicians to create a form of music that could only be realized in the studio?
How did The Beatles’ use of cutting edge recording technology and studio techniques both reflect and shape the counterculture of the 1960s?
How did wartime restrictions and other factors cause popular music ensembles to shrink in size during the 1940s, helping to set the stage for the small “combos” of Rock and Roll?
What factors led to the rise of the electric guitar as the dominant symbol of Rock and Roll?
How did radio influence American life in the years before the birth of Rock and Roll?
What did R&B bring to early Rock and Roll, and how was early Rock and Roll different?
How did Progressive Rock’s incorporation of classical traditions and countercultural values help to forge a unique Rock genre in the late 1960s?
How did the careers of Italian American vocalists in the first half of the 20th century reflect the experiences of Italian American immigrants and attitudes toward them in the wider American culture?