(Left) Bobby Sanabria, Courtesy of Vic Firth (Right) Bertha Hope, Photo by Edwin Pagan/Bronx Music Heritage Center
About this Event:
The Morrisania neighborhood was home to many jazz musicians and was also one of the cradles of hip hop in the Bronx. This walking tour will explore the jazz, doo-wop, Latin music, and hip hop history of the neighborhood; as well as some of the social history that has changed the face of the neighborhood, from the fires that raged here in the 1970s and 1980s prompting visits from Presidents Reagan and Carter, to the social activism that have built it back up.
After the tour, stay in the Bronx for the special event at Bronx Music Hall: a performance and album release by Cocomama (world music, Latin jazz)!
About Your Guide:
Elena Martínez is the Co-Artistic Director of the Bronx Music Heritage Center. She co-produced the documentary, From Mambo to Hip Hop: A South Bronx Tale, which aired on PBS in 2006. She was a producer for the documentary, We Like It Like That: The Story of Latin Boogaloo in 2015. She was also a producer on the short documentary, Eddie Palmieri: A Revolution on Harlem River Drive (2016). In 2013, she gave the Botkin Lecture for the American Folklore Center at the Library of Congress, “I’d Still Be Puerto Rican, Even if Born on the Moon: Puerto Rican Migration and Community Through the Expressive Arts.” She was on the Centennial Exhibition Advisory Committee for the Museum of the City of New York and was also a member of the Community Advisory Board for Steven Spielberg’s 2021 film adaptation of West Side Story. A current project involves researching the Afro-Puerto Rican participation in the 369th Regimental Band (the “Harlem Hellfighters”) during WWI, which she has been working on with the World War I Centennial Commemoration “369th Experience.”
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