Word: sambas
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Dates: during 1961-1961
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...young Cuban musician named Eduardo Davidson wrote a song called La Pachanga. Havana's charanga groups (drums, flute, piano and strings) picked it up, and by the time the noise drifted north a year later, it was a dance whose gyrations suggested a meringue blended with the samba, Charleston and Bunny Hop. Early this year Bandleader José Fajado brought La Pachanga to the Palladium and Dancing Instructor "Killer Joe" Piro began teaching it there. Killer Joe feels that the dance is too complex for definition, but an executive of the Fred Astaire Dance Studios describes it easily...
...Janeiro, Brazil's four-day pre-Lenten carnival is wild enough. Surging through the city's streets, jamming its clubs, they sing, samba and spray passers-by with ether, in a pleasure-madness that only exhaustion can satiate. But for Brazil's women, the Rio carnival is a rare escape from the censorious control normally exercised by fathers, husbands and fiancés. Peeling off some of their clothes and more of their inhibitions, perfectly respectable Brazilian wives and mothers become during the Rio carnival the houris of their innermost dreams...