American Sabor: Latinos in U.S. Popular Music is the first interpretive museum exhibition to tell the story of the profound influence and impact of Latinos in American popular music. In Spanish, sabor means taste or flavor and is commonly used to refer to good music. In American Sabor, Latino culture sprinkles large amounts of rhythmic styles, distinct beats, and flamboyant attitudes into the mainstream pop music, hence, a Latino spice, an American Flavor; conjuring up images of Ritchie Valens or Tito Peunte and their influences on bands ranging from Los Lobos and Santana to Miami Sound Machine and Selena.

"American Sabor is the first major museum exhibition to explore the significant contributions of Latino artists in shaping the American sound-scape."

Curated in partnership with three faculty members at the University of Washington, the Simpson Center for the Humanities, and the Experience Music Project, American Sabor is a cultural event, an interactive educational exhibition that manifests the influence of Latino artistry within the currents of American popular music and social history. American Sabor focuses on five major centers of Latino popular music production in the post-World War II United States-New York City, Los Angeles, Miami, San Antonio and San Francisco-which represent the diversity of Latino music. It explores the combination of social history and individual creativity that produced music which provided a window into the broader experiences of the Latino Communities. The exhibition illustrates contributions of Latino musicians and fans not only to Latin music but also to rock "n" roll, rhythm and blues, jazz, country and western, punk, and hip-hop. The musicians and communities featured in this exhibition are therefore "American" in every sense of the word, whether we use it to mean the United States or the Americas more broadly. Their experiences now form part of our American Music Experience.

American Sabor: Latinos in U.S. Popular Music was organized by the Experience Music Project