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References and Resources

**Original Quote, "Puerto Rico nacio bailando...y siempre ha vivido bailando." From Cesareo Rosa-Nieves, "Apuntes sobre los bailes in Puerto Rico," Historia 1/2 (October 1951), p. 191 and Cesareo Rosa-Nieves, "Voz Folklorica de Puerto Rico", Troutman Press 1967, p. 83.