Latin music in the United States and its impact on hip-hop will be featured during “America’s Music” at Wartburg College, Thursday, Oct. 17.

“Latin Rhythms from Mambo to Hip-Hip,” 6:30-8:30 p.m. in McCaskey Lyceum, will depict how Cuban dance music became fused with Afro-Caribbean rhythms in New York City in the 1940s, breaking social and musical rules. Three decades later it would influence hip-hop, which began as inner-city African-American music.

Dr. Geoffrey Wilson, Wartburg lecturer in music, will lead a discussion on the topic, following two films — “Bridges,” about the migration of Latin music to the United States, and “From Mambo to Hip-Hop: A South Bronx Tale.”

This is the sixth and final session in the “America’s Music” series, which was made possible at Wartburg by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities and the ALA.

“America’s Music” is a project of the Tribeca Film Institute in collaboration with the America Library Association, Tribeca Flashpoint and the Society for American Music. For more information, go to http://library.wartburg.edu/americasmusic.aspx.