Excerpt from Recreation, Vol. 35: April 1941The needs, hopes and prospects that come to our minds when we contemplate the relation of the Americas to the. Rest of the world of today must make us want to help in them however we can. So far as music is concerned, only a begin ning has been made. A lusty beginning it seems when we remember how interest in certain kinds of latin-american music and dances has grown among people in all our cities, mainly through the dance-band versions by radio and the dance studio and Hollywood versions of the dances. Wherever people gather for high gaiety, in hotels, restan rants, ballrooms and theaters, the verve, grace and captivating rhythms of the best of this music and the dances are having their way. But the South American way is not all this kind of high gaiety and feasting and whatever else is meant by the entertainment people who must have coined that phrase.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.