yes the salsa thing is omnipresent -- when i as home at dad's one of the carers was talkin to my sister about a salsa class she was goin to in some TINY ULTRA-RURAL SHROPSHIRE TOWN, i nearly blurted out my ubersobbish metropolitan scorn for the quality of the lessons, but luckily bit my tongue in time

for some reason the latin thing is wide in brit pop culture but not "deep" -- it seems utterly to pervade a layer of leisure-time and leisure-type functional music without ever reaching "up" or "down", as it were, into neighbouring layers (i sourly think some of this is a general brit ineptness with rhythm that isn't in foursquare marchtime; that's to say, plenty of brits have an ear for this, but the ear has never been allowed cultural expression of sustenance in brit culture)

(i'm not really explaining this very well)