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Bachata: Generations Apart and Together

Global Beat Fusion

[15 October 2007]

by Derek Beres

Bachata grew up in the barrio. Servants would turn trashcans and fences into instruments in their nighttime escapades, and the words would tune hearts to a frequency unheard during daytime hours.

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