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What is the beat of mambo?
4/4
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What is a popular Ballroom for Mambo music?
Palladium Ballroom, New York City
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What does mambo mean in Haiti?
Voodoo Priestess
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Where was it first introduced?
Cuba
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What is the tempo of Mambo?
Quick Tempo
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What type of hip movements are used?
Exaggerated hip movement
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What are dancers called?
Mombonicks
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Where is it most popular today.
Mexico
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Name two instruments used in Mambo.
Cuban-style percussion, strings, piano, winds, cowbell, maracas.
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What was the original intention of mambo?
It was made for dancing.
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How did the Cubans influence Mambo?
They added there own sun dance.
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What does Mambo mean in Kikongo?
Conversation with the Gods
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What is one famous Mambo musician.
Perez Prado, Orestes Lopez
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What type of music does it relate to?
Jazz
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How was it popularized in America?
Italian American gangsters.
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True or False, mambo music can use saxophone and or trumpet?
True
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What is one type of music influenced by Mambo.
Cha Cha Cha, Salsa
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What makes the Mambo dance difficult?
Very fast tempo and quick movements
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What makes it different from Rumba.
It adds a riff at the end.
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True or False, Mambo dance is considered flirtatious?
True
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