UKSALSA CHAT | SUZYQ CHAT 

Subject: What is on2
From: anonymous
Date: 22nd Apr 2006, 9:02 am

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You've got things the wrong way round here. New York is where Salsa is from and all these other things which call themselves Salsa are the ones jumping on the bandwagon.

You are, of course, totally correct that the name was changed from Mambo to Salsa for marketing reasons, but that was 30 years ago and that's when the term Salsa was invented. Since that time when New York invented Salsa, it is the other forms of dance which have appropriated the name (like Son and Cumbia). If any form should have the word Salsa in its name, then it is the New York form and not the other forms!

 f the Salsa Scene. So stop calling it New

Except it's not Mambo - it's Salsa. The other forms should start using their proper names instead.

But it's not opinion that you've got wrong here, it's facts.

dG

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Wow. you're way off base. You obviously have no clue to the origins of music or dance, let alone the origin of the term salsa. marketing reasons??? 30 years ago???. People have to stop getting their educations from drunks in bars. Pick up a history book.

MK