"Cha-Cha with a Backbeat" -Flores

A main point that Flores seems to be making is the fusion of Latino music with both Afro-Cuban and African-American genres to create boogaloo is one of the most successful fusions of multiple cultures into one. This is especially done for the youth who listened to the music because the young Latinos, the Nuyoricans, would be torn between the music that their peers listened to and the music of their heritage. However, success would also seem to be a driving factor in bands creating that fusion sound.

This reading is relevant to what we are learning in class because Flores describes "the music itself" in musical terminology, referring to the back beats, the timbre, rhythm and percussions and other insturments. Flores also takes on an ethnographic point of view when he goes into the history of Latino funk to find its origins and the people and sounds that made it unique, for example Richie Ray and Eddie Palmieri.

Do you think that there is any type of music now that, "observes the [popular] dance moves closely and fits the rhythms and other musical qualities to the movements," the way that Richie Ray tried to? Why or why not?