As many of us recall, from 1974 to the early 1980s, disco was a sensation at dance clubs and quickly became a cultural phenomenon. But its popularity pales by comparison to the mambo, which emerged in the late 1940s, dominated the culture in the 1950s and extended into the early 1960s. From the start, the mambo's popularity was based on the music's noct…
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