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The Dance That Crossed Color Lines
Narrator
Ron Butler
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Length
11 minutes
Language
English
Millie danced to jazz in her Italian neighborhood. Pedro danced to Latin songs in his Puerto Rican neighborhood. It was the 1940s in New York City, and they were forbidden to dance together… until, first, a band and, then, a ballroom broke the rules. Machito and His Afro-Cubans hit the scene with a brand-new sound, blending jazz trumpets and saxophones with Latin maracas and congas creating Latin jazz: music for the head, the heart, and the hips. Then the Palladium Ballroom issued a bold challenge to segregation and threw open its doors to all. ¡Mambo Mucho Mambo! portrays the power of music and dance to transcend racial, religious, and ethnic boundaries.
Dean Robbins is the author of Margaret and the Moon: How Margaret Hamilton Saved the First Lunar Landing, Miss Paul and the President: The Creative Campaign for Women's Right to Vote, and Two Friends: Susan B. Anthony and Frederick Douglass. A lifelong student of jazz, he lives in Madison, Wisconsin.
Ron Butler is a Los Angeles based actor who works regularly as a commercial and animation voiceover artist and an audiobook narrator. A member of the Atlantic Theater Company, he has over a hundred film and television credits to his name and won an Independent Filmmaker Project Award for his work in the HBO film Everyday People.