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4 Remembering the Past with El Ciego Maravilloso THE FINAL DECADE of Arsenio's career and life has been the subject of much speculation. As can be observed on many Web sites and in liner notes to CDs, Arsenio, it is widely believed, died "in poverty" and an "almost forgotten figure.,,1 To be sure, by 1960 the forty-nine-yearold bandleader and his conjunto of mostly middle-aged Cuban and Puerto Rican musicians were struggling to capture the attention of young Latin music dancers whose tastes in music spanned doo-wop, rock and roll, and Motown as well as the newest Latin dance craze, pachanga. By the end of the 1960s this repertory would include boogaloo and salsa. Nevertheless, for many first-generation Cuban and Puerto Rican immigrants in New York City, Chicago, and Los Angeles as well as for Cura ~~~;~~~i:~:," III I 'I\;"~:'~'~;~;'~~~ _ O~t 1.00 en 9,flO N.~(. . - , ,KOlOSSAAl Dunnrol, T'ROCfl,nlMAI Gn.i\~I)idos··DF.f1UUT,no tJ~ }.~\·k:d: Minch· n~ituilf \311 r Inttm:ltionJJ" 6:1111, . ~ . ..,;A'TIS~10·RbDRrGUr..z;'en zijn Conjllnlo! '\'oot' t;(..thC'tU~fI? C~rJool Yc:uolhcn '·In GI(.lIh~\unw U homl 0..1. tic Cflr Hil\~ Dliob ~'::llofn~~ CiiTic.:o Abn:i-. H:l)' rur~o ~ £1 21, ;\.J..L.rt:nb coma ~t.mj eu. 'lUb ted 1I4""U! An COJoLinJ~ uid, de PH£.\,fl£ltE ":in cen !,ukh:n!c licfuc\ dr:llflJ met: J\..im .Hunta' • G:u}o° ~lemJ1 - Ron It=.mlc:ll'inl" , ' " "fiE!t~ruDA AFf.'Aiip;, ,/ ...... .,. .. -. In btl Erl£,ch !net S~:lnK' t~.k.t1. r' ... ~..a\ bocirnd c.onffi.:t ,\';in p.,Utb en J:~~'(d.cntt ~.))lrriJ';\~~~:/ ~.!>"'J4''Ol;cnhi'i

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