New York City\'s desegregated Palladium Ballroom springs to life with a diverse 1940s cast in this jazzy picture-book tribute to the history of mambo and Latin jazz.
Eric Velasquez lives in Hartsdale, New York..
He has also won a John Steptoe New Talent Illustrator Award and a Pura Belpré Illustrator Award.
Eric Velasquez is the award-winning illustrator of Schomburg: The Man Who Built a Library , which received a Walter Dean Myers Award and an SCBWI Golden Kite Award.
Dean Robbins lives in Madison, Wisconsin.
Anthony and Frederick Douglass , and a lifelong student of jazz.
About author(s): Dean Robbins is the author of Margaret and the Moon: How Margaret Hamilton Saved the First Lunar Landing
Miss Paul and the President: The Creative Campaign for Women\'s Right to Vote ; and Two Friends: Susan B.
Illustrated with verve and told through real-life characters who feature in an afterword, Mambo Mucho Mambo! portrays the power of music and dance to transcend racial, religious, and ethnic boundaries.
Then the Palladium Ballroom issued a bold challenge to segregation and threw open its doors to all.
Machito and His Afro-Cubans hit the scene with a brand-new sound, blending jazz trumpets and saxophones with Latin maracas and congas creating Latin jazz, music for the head, the heart, and the hips. until first a band and then a ballroom broke the rules. . .
It was the 1940s in New York City, and they were forbidden to dance together .
Pedro danced to Latin songs in his Puerto Rican neighborhood.
Millie danced to jazz in her Italian neighborhood.
Y Eric Velasquez retrata los bailarines de todos los lugares de la ciudad, emparejados, moviéndose hacia delante y hacia atrás, de un lado a otro, dando vueltas y balanceándose al son del jazz latino de Machito y sus Afrocubanos.
Dean Robbins cuenta cómo el Palladium, un excitante nuevo sonido llamado jazz latino y un Baile pegajoso de Cuba llamado mambo, impulsaron el inicio del movimiento de los derechos civiles.
Cuando Millie Donay y Pedro Aguilar se encontraron en la pista de Baile del Palladium, brotaron chispas y se derribaron barreras.
Pero antes de que terminara la década, una nueva sala de Baile -- el Palladium - acogió a personas de todos los vecindarios.
Ya sea que bailaras al sonido de las trompetas y los saxofones en un salón en el barrio italiano o en la calle al son de maracas y congas en el barrio puertorriqueño, generalmente bailabas en el lugar donde vivías y con gente de tu mismo origen.
Era la década de 1940 en la segregada cuidad de Nueva York.
New York City\'s desegregated Palladium Ballroom springs to life with a diverse 1940s cast in this jazzy picture-book tribute to the history of mambo and Latin jazz
