Showbiz Scene: Mambo

 

 ¡Mambo Mucho Mambo! The Dance That Crossed Color Lines (Hardcover)

https://www.google.com/books/edition/Mambo_Mucho_Mambo_The_Dance_That_Crossed/-VoyEAAAQBAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&dq=mambo+mucho+mambo&printsec=frontcover

 

 

I
 
Unit: Showbiz Scene
Theme: Mambo / Cabaret, Musical, Film &  Ballroom

Introduction
 
Today, we are going to explore the mambo.  We will study why mambo was always a cabaret dance and never became a rhythm danced popularly.  Made popular in Mexico, mainly through the golden age of Mexican cinema, mambo was exported all over the world.
 
 
II
 
Learning Objectives 

  • Understand mambo as a result of the capitalist structure in Cuba
  • Explain the origin, development and current situation of mambo
  • Gain an awareness of how mambo was and has become, conga and rumba, an element of  the society of the spectacle
  • Experience the choreographic aspect of mambo dance

 III
 
Main Lesson 
 
 
1
 
 ·     Cuban Music / Alejo Carpentier
 
Page 33


Question 1

 What does Carpentier say about the adaptation of harmonic motifs?

 

 2

 

·     Las Cien Aguilas / German Marin

https://www.google.com/books/edition/Las_cien_aguilas/8X2cCgAAQBAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&dq=origen+del+mambo,+Cachao&pg=PT379&printsec=frontcover


  Question 2

Who composed the mambo according to the notes?



3

 

Mambo: Basic Step

 https://youtu.be/YBCY_YoDBhc?si=6zrBwMaP05x7WShK

 

·      Cuba and its Music / Ned Sublette


 Questions 3,4,5,6

Pages 179, 508, 509, 570

3. What was the phonological influence of Bantu culture?
4. What is Arcano's contribution to mambo?
5. How did the other rhythms affect the emergence of mambo? 
6.What metaphor explains how to dance the mambo?
 

 4

West Side Story and the Hispanic/ Elizabeth A. Wells

  https://echo.humspace.ucla.edu/issues/west-side-story-and-the-hispanic/

 Question 7

Why was mambo "the biggest dance sensation of the decade" in New York? (Go to Mambo on Broadway)

 

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 LP Basics: Bobby Sanabria - Mambo

https://youtu.be/ayIksohGESY?si=JRpoWdpYsHlENCVG

Question 8

Who were the 3 mambo kings according to Sanabria?


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Mambo: Perez Prado

Mambo # 5

 https://youtu.be/dKuvJ7zG9LI?si=mh-GC4a-p974VCVs

Video 

Mambo # 8

 https://youtu.be/E3v3eRhcu08?si=tYFZrIthnjtwYqOd

Video

Rareza del Siglo de Bebo Valdes con Rita Montaner

  https://youtu.be/2aLZHN9M5Lw?si=m3ukCBCt91TZESJP

 

Question 9


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Mambo Italiano

 Silvana Mangano

 https://youtu.be/6YqZpSDhu-g?si=ejZp3B6Matuhgkdx

Rosemary Clooney

https://youtu.be/9prJXEhNhPA?si=Vf7iAIq1UX6RRMR4

Sofia Loren

https://youtu.be/XL8_WRJmFJU?si=i7jHVtESc4EVVpAa

 

 Question 10

What aspects of mambo begin to change in Europe and America?

 

 8

Mambo at the Palledium
 

Question 9


 Are there any vestiges of the original mambo in the ballroom version? Explain
 

IV

 A Note to Remember

Rumba was and is associated with African communities in the Americas.

 

V

Case Studies 

Conjunto Folklorico Nacional

https://youtu.be/dXpnuyqloKU?si=tMFC4sUxEd7arXgA

West Side Story

https://youtu.be/nbgt5byRQUs?si=TI3n9t7nc0oLBEvJ 

(2:35 - end)

Mambo Kings

 https://youtu.be/GIeTmScJfzI?si=S2QqayUEQn0O-DuH


 

VI

Activity


Students learn a mambo choreography.


VII

Journaling


VIII

Glossary


IX

Sources


X

Students' Work


 

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