Pachanga
A bouncy, festive Cuban craze of the early 1960s.
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Pachanga
A Cuban dance-music genre of the early 1960s, poised between son montuno and merengue and between Havana and New York
4 min read
Eduardo Davidson and the Birth of La Pachanga (1959)
How one Cuban TV hit turned a word for "party" into a dance craze
4 min read
The Pachanga Bounce and Footwork
The Cuban pachanga's bounce and footwork, anchored to a downbeat stronger than the cha-cha's and read through a thin documentary record
3 min read
Charlie Palmieri: The Giant of the Keyboards
His Charanga Duboney helped ignite the US charanga and pachanga craze
2 min read
Overview
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Etymology and naming
1 article
Origins
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Eduardo Davidson and the Birth of La Pachanga (1959)
How one Cuban TV hit turned a word for "party" into a dance craze
4 min read
Eduardo Davidson and the Birth of La Pachanga (1959)
A 1959 charanga hit that launched a dance craze and a new Cuban genre
4 min read
The New York Charanga Craze
Pachanga, the charanga ensemble, and the bridge to salsa in 1960s New York
2 min read
Musical anatomy
1 article
Pioneers
4 articles
Charlie Palmieri: The Giant of the Keyboards
His Charanga Duboney helped ignite the US charanga and pachanga craze
2 min read
Eduardo Davidson
The Cuban songwriter and choreographer credited with creating the pachanga
5 min read
Joe Quijano: The King of Pachanga
His Conjunto Cachana and his label Cesta Records carried pachanga from New York to the world
2 min read
José Fajardo: The Cuban Flute of Pachanga
The charanga flutist whose orchestra reigned over the chachachá and pachanga craze
2 min read