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Languages : en
Pages : 199
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Popular Cuban Music 80
Author: Popular Cuban Music
Author: Emilio GrenetPopular Cuban music
Author: Emilio GrenetPopular Cuban Music : 80 Revised and Corrected Compositions
Author: Emilio GrenetThe Rough Guide to Cuban Music
Author: Philip SweeneyPublisher: Rough Guides
ISBN: 9781858287614
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 372
Book Description
Cuba is home to some of the world's most vibrant popular music in the world, from son and rumba to salsa and chachacha. The Rough Guide to Cuban Music introduces the full range of Cuba's varied musical traditions and tells the story of their greatest performers, legends like Beny More, Celina Gonzalea alongside more recent stars such as Carlos Varela. Includes features on the origins and development of the various musical genres, a biographical directory of over 100 key artists, with dozens of photographs. Also draws up some critical discographies, recommending the pick of each artist's output.
Afro-Latin American Studies
Author: Alejandro de la FuentePublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1316835898
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 664
Book Description
Alejandro de la Fuente and George Reid Andrews offer the first systematic, book-length survey of humanities and social science scholarship on the exciting field of Afro-Latin American studies. Organized by topic, these essays synthesize and present the current state of knowledge on a broad variety of topics, including Afro-Latin American music, religions, literature, art history, political thought, social movements, legal history, environmental history, and ideologies of racial inclusion. This volume connects the region's long history of slavery to the major political, social, cultural, and economic developments of the last two centuries. Written by leading scholars in each of those topics, the volume provides an introduction to the field of Afro-Latin American studies that is not available from any other source and reflects the disciplinary and thematic richness of this emerging field.
Music in Cuba
Author: Alejo CarpentierPublisher: U of Minnesota Press
ISBN: 9780816632305
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 316
Book Description
"In the wake of the Buena Vista Social Club, the world has rediscovered the rich musical tradition of Cuba. A unique combination of popular and elite influences, the music of this island nation has fascinated since the golden age of the son - that new World aural collision of Africa and Europe that made Cuban music the rage in Paris, New York, and Mexico beginning in the 1920s." "Drawing on such primary documents as obscure church circulars, dog-eared musical scores pulled from attics, and the records of the Spanish colonial authorities, Music in Cuba sweeps from the sixteenth to the twentieth centuries. Carpentier covers European-style elite Cuban music as well as the popular worlds of rural Spanish folk and Afro-Cuban urban music."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved
The Latin American Art Song
Author: Patricia CaicedoPublisher: Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN: 1498581633
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 188
Book Description
This study of the Latin American art song and its development in the context of musical nationalism shows how the song is a mirror in which the processes of conformation to Latin American national identity are reflected.
Salsa Piano
Author: Jon Griffin, Jr.Publisher: Salsa Blanca Publishing
ISBN: 9781941837368
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Languages : en
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Listening in Detail
Author: Alexandra T. VazquezPublisher: Duke University Press
ISBN: 0822378876
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 352
Book Description
Listening in Detail is an original and impassioned take on the intellectual and sensory bounty of Cuban music as it circulates between the island, the United States, and other locations. It is also a powerful critique of efforts to define "Cuban music" for ethnographic examination or market consumption. Contending that the music is not a knowable entity but a spectrum of dynamic practices that elude definition, Alexandra T. Vazquez models a new way of writing about music and the meanings assigned to it. "Listening in detail" is a method invested in opening up, rather than pinning down, experiences of Cuban music. Critiques of imperialism, nationalism, race, and gender emerge in fragments and moments, and in gestures and sounds through Vazquez's engagement with Alfredo Rodríguez's album Cuba Linda (1996), the seventy-year career of the vocalist Graciela Pérez, the signature grunt of the "Mambo King" Dámaso Pérez Prado, Cuban music documentaries of the 1960s, and late-twentieth-century concert ephemera.