On radio and streams, salsa dura has long since been replaced in popularity by the more manufactured sound of salsa romántica — think of the Latin pop studio confections of Marc Anthony and La India.

The Latin melting pot that was New York in the 1960s and 1970s gave rise to salsa dura, or hard salsa. The neighborhoods of Brooklyn, Queens and the South Bronx were teeming with immigrants from Cuba, ...

THERE’S a popular song by salsa orchestra El Gran Combo about a man who asks that the love and praise he’s earned in life be given to him while he is still around to appreciate it. “If you think I ...

In the heat of summer, it seems President Obama is dancing la salsa dura. Along with 40 artists, including Justin Timberlake, Aretha Franklin, and Bob Marley, the president chose Miami-based Colombian ...