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Sanabria, Bobby, Mark Naison
Sanabria, Bobby, Mark Naison
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Bobby Sanabria Summary
Summarized by Ian Smith, August 2022
Bobby Sanabria is a drummer, percussionist, composer, arranger, conductor, documentary film producer, educator, bandleader, and activist. He is a 7-time grammy nominee as lead, and his versatility as both a drummer and percussionist, from small group to big band, has become legendary. His knowledge of latin jazz, both as a historian and as a maker of its history, has earned him worldwide acclaim.
Bobby Sanabria’s family were from rural Puerto Rico. Bobby was born in 1957 at the historic St. Francis hospital in the South Bronx. When he was 3, his …
Break Beats In The Bronx: Rediscovering Hip-Hop’S Early Years (Book Review), Matthew Oware
Break Beats In The Bronx: Rediscovering Hip-Hop’S Early Years (Book Review), Matthew Oware
Sociology and Anthropology Faculty Publications
Review of the book, Break Beats in the Bronx: Rediscovering Hip-Hop’s Early Years, by Joseph C. Ewoodzie, University of North Carolina Press, 2017, https://www.uncpress.org/book/9781469632759/break-beats-in-the-bronx/.