When Fidel Castro overthrew the government in Cuba and began to make his revolutionary society, he faced a problem at once: how to start the people working and stop them dancing. And the dance was salsa. Although salsa originated in Central and Latin America, it has spread all over the world and influenced many other genres. Read more about it here (1,160 words).
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