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Product Description: The organizations in this Snap Shot study play a vital role in the cultural arts field highlighting institutions that reflect the aesthetic spectrum of excellence grounded in the international community perspectives that nurtured their growth...read more
Paperback:
9781494474225 | Createspace Independent Pub, September 14, 2014, cover price $19.99 | About this edition: The organizations in this Snap Shot study play a vital role in the cultural arts field highlighting institutions that reflect the aesthetic spectrum of excellence grounded in the international community perspectives that nurtured their growth.
When rock and roll was transforming American culture in the 1950s and â60s, 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 Rodriguez. Their music could be heard on every radio in El Barrio and from the main stage at the legendary Palladium, where every weekend working-class kids dressed in their sharpest suits and highest heels and became mambo kings and queens. Spanish Harlem was a vibrant and dynamic world, but it was also a place of constant change, where the traditions of Puerto Rican parents clashed with their childrenâs American ideals.A precocious little girl with wildly curly hair, Marta was the baby of the family and the favorite of her elderly abuela, who lived in the apartment down the hall. Abuela Luisa was the spiritual center of the family, an espiritista who smoked cigars and honored the Afro-Caribbean deities who had always protected their family. But it was Martaâs brother, Chachito, who taught her the latest dance steps and called her from the pay phone at the Palladium at night so she could listen, huddled beneath the bedcovers, to the seductive rhythms of Tito Puente and his orchestra.In this luminous and lively memoir, Marta Moreno Vega calls forth the spirit of Puerto Rican New York and the music, mysticism, and traditions of a remarkable and quintessentially American childhood.âViva Marta Moreno Vega! With honesty, humor, and love, she relives her coming-of-age in Spanish Harlemâthe highs and the lowsâeloquently documenting how deeply rooted West African cultural traditions are in her rich Puerto Rican heritage. Marta Vegaâs memoir makes me want to mambo.â âSusan Taylor, editorial director of Essence and author of Lessons in Living
Miscellaneous:
9780307549211 | Crown Pub, May 12, 2010, cover price $13.95
Prebinding:
9781417674619 | Turtleback Books, November 1, 2004, cover price $25.70 | About this edition: When rock and roll was transforming American culture in the 1950s and â60s, East Harlem pulsed with the sounds of mambo and merengue.
An evocative memoir of Puerto Rican New York describes one young woman's childhood and coming of age in Spanish Harlem during the 1950s and 1960s, offering a colorful portrait of a dynamic and vibrant community marked by the conflict between the rigid traditions of immigrant parents and their children's American ideals. Original. 20,000 first printing.
Paperback:
9781400049240 | Three Rivers Pr, November 1, 2004, cover price $13.95 | About this edition: An evocative memoir of Puerto Rican New York describes one young woman's childhood and coming of age in Spanish Harlem during the 1950s and 1960s, offering a colorful portrait of a dynamic and vibrant community marked by the conflict between the rigid traditions of immigrant parents and their children's American ideals.
A scholar and Santeria priestess cuts through the myths and stereotypes surrounding her religion and presents a cogent look at this lively and thriving tradition. Reprint.
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Hardcover:
9780345421371 | 1 edition (Ballantine Books, September 1, 2000), cover price $25.95 | About this edition: A scholar and Santeria priestess cuts through the myths and stereotypes surrounding her religion and presents a cogent look at this lively and thriving tradition.
Paperback:
9780345421555 | Reprint edition (One World, August 1, 2001), cover price $16.00 | About this edition: A scholar and Santeria priestess cuts through the myths and stereotypes surrounding her religion and presents a cogent look at this lively and thriving tradition.
Hardcover:
9780865433939 | Africa World Pr, June 1, 1993, cover price $59.95
Paperback:
9780865433946 | Africa World Pr, September 1, 1993, cover price $18.95 | About this edition: Book by Vega, Marta Moreno
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