Exploring   The Land of   1,000 Dances

You’ve gotta admire a book whose title purports to give a definitive overview of a subject, then admits its failure at the outset. And that’s exactly how “The Tide Was Always High: The Music of Latin America in Los Angeles” introduces itself.

“We realized very quickly that our ambitions would overreach what we could do in a single volume,” editor Josh Kun writes in the preface about the group