Electronic resources
Newsgroups
Discussions, mostly in English but sometimes in Spanish of afro-cuban music, often salsa. There is occasional discussion of dancing to such music.
Web sites
- Merengue: http://www.mindspring.com/~adiascar/musica/ , http://sac.uky.edu/~jerodr0/merengue.htm .
- Salsa dancing in New York: http://www.salsanewyork.com/, including "Salsa on 2".
- A salsa web site: http://www.salsaweb.com . Here is a web site devoted to latin music (especially salsa), but not exclusively to dancing: http://www.lamusica.com/ .
Mailing list
From: jacquesg@usa.net
There is a mailing list on the 'net dedicated to Salsa, Cumbia, Bachata, Mambo and Merengue dance and music.
If you wish to subscribe, you can send an email to: salsa-l@usa.net with: Subscribe in the subject. (Unsubscribe works like that.as well).
The list isn't runned on usa.net. The address I specified is a forwarding address that I created to avoid having the real address appear on USENET because of spammers. Only subscribe/unsubscribe requests get forwarded to the list.
Jacques G.
Salsa vs Mambo
Salsa instructional dance videos
The Clave: Creole Cuban Instrument, by Rebeca Mauleón
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