From Mambo to Hip-Hop

To be screened at 3rd Music and World Documentary Film Festival 19th - 22nd March 2009.

From Mambo to Hip Hop, reż. Henry Chalfant, ’60 min.

“From Mambo to Hip-Hop” dances through the history of a borough that nurtured two musical movements: the mambo that evolved into salsa, and the hip-hop that arose from the most desperate days of the South Bronx. Produced by Elena Martinez and Steve Zeitlin, who are principals in the New York folklore group City Lore, and directed by Henry Chalfant, a longtime chronicler of the South Bronx who collaborated on the early-1980’s documentary “Style Wars,” “From Mambo” rushes by, driven by rhythms that change through the decades.