Spanish Harlem's Musical Legacy, 1930-1980

Spanish Harlems musical development thrived between the 1930s and 1980s in New York City. This area was called El Barrio by its inhabitants and Spanish Harlem by all others. It was a neighborhood where musicians from the Caribbean or their descendants organized musical groups, thereby adding to the diaspora that began in Africa and Spain. The music now called salsa had its roots in Cuba, Puerto Rico, and Santo Domingo, and it continued developing on another island: Manhattan.Alava, Silvio H. is the author of 'Spanish Harlem's Musical Legacy, 1930-1980 ', published 2007 under ISBN 9780738550060 and ISBN 073855006X.