Following my post yesterday on salsa and Joe Bataan's Ghetto Records, many readers emailed me about Joe Bataan and boogaloo. As I posted yesterday, boogaloo was a funky Latin-soul hybrid geared to a younger generation of freestyle dancers. The boogaloo emerged in New York, primarily in the Latin dance clubs of Manhattan and the Bronx. Among the first bo…
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