Over the year 1966, a new pulse spreads like wildfire on the sidewalks of New Yorks Spanish Harlem. "This is boogaloo", you could hear. Like no music genre ever before, it brought together African Americans and Latinos. Boogaloo's energy seduced young people from different backgrounds, well beyond the borders of the U.S.A., and especially in the Caribbean cradle land: in Cuba, Puerto Rico, Dominica, and all the way to the French West Indies. When boogaloo overtook the West Indies this new wave knocked out hierarchy and habits. On the dancefloors of the most prestigious nightclubs, such as La Bananeraie in Martinique or La Cocoteraie in Guadeloupe, musicians dabbled with boogaloo coming up with rather unorthodox interpretations, and this is precisely ... mehr lesen