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Pages: 690
Authors: Ned Sublette
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2007-02 - Publisher: Chicago Review Press

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This entertaining history of Cuba and its music begins with the collision of Spain and Africa and continues through the era of Miguelito Valdes, Arsenio Rodrigu
Cuban Music
Language: en
Pages: 266
Authors: Maya Roy
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2002 - Publisher:

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Native Americans supplied the maracas. African slaves brought drums and ritual music, and Spaniards brought guitars, brass instruments, and clarinets along with
From Afro-Cuban Rhythms to Latin Jazz
Language: en
Pages: 216
Authors: Raul A. Fernandez
Categories: Music
Type: BOOK - Published: 2006-05-23 - Publisher: Univ of California Press

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This book explores the complexity of Cuban dance music and the webs that connect it, musically and historically, to other Caribbean music, to salsa, and to Lati
Listening in Detail
Language: en
Pages: 352
Authors: Alexandra T. Vazquez
Categories: Music
Type: BOOK - Published: 2013-06-03 - Publisher: Duke University Press

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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 St
The Rough Guide to Cuban Music
Language: en
Pages: 372
Authors: Philip Sweeney
Categories: Music
Type: BOOK - Published: 2001 - Publisher: Rough Guides

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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 introduce