From Mambo To Hip Hop: A South Bronx Tale DVD

CypherStyles Best Video of 2009 - Rap

Format: NTSC All Regions DVD (Works on all DVD players worldwide)

Language: English

Run Time: 56 minutes

Rating: Unrated

This documentary by Henry Chalfant (Style Wars) chronicles Hip Hop Cultures Birth and Evolution in the South Bronx! Featuring Interviews and Footage with the BBoy Pioneers Track 2, Kid Freeze, Popmaster Fabel, The Dynamic Rockers and the Rocksteady Crew!

"From Mambo to Hip Hop dances through the history of a borough that nurtured mambo, which evolved into salsa, and the hip-hop that arose from the most desperate days of the South Bronx." - Jon Pareles, The New York Times

The last generation in the Bronx remembers the spots where their communities burned to the ground. A more recent generation knows it as the place where hip hop was born.

An older generation remembers the time that this turf nurtured the hot New York Latin music sound that came to be known as salsa.

From Mambo To Hip Hop: A South Bronx Tale is an hour-long documentary that tells a story about the creative life of the South Bronx, beginning with the Puerto Rican migration and the adoption of Cuban rhythms to create the New York salsa sound; continuing with the fires that destroyed the neighborhood but not the creative spirit of its people; chronicling the rise of hip hop from the ashes; and ending with reflections on the power of the neighborhood's music to ensure the survival of several generations of its residents, and, in the process, take the world's pop culture by storm.

Bonus Features:

Extra Interviews and Outtakes with the Featured Performers and Artists

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