Cuba and Its Music : From the First Drums to the Mambo
This entertaining history of Cuba and its music begins with the collision of Spain and Africa and continues through the era of Miguelito Valdés, Arsenio Rodríguez, Benny Moré, and Pérez Prado. It offers a behind-the-scenes examination of music from a Cuban point of view, unearthing surprising, provocative connections and making the case that Cuba was fundamental to the evolution of music in the New World. The ways in which the music of black slaves transformed 16th-century Europe, how the claves appeared, and how Cuban music influenced ragtime, jazz, and rhythm and blues are revealed. Music lo
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1 online resource (690 pages)
9781569764190, 9781569764206, 1569764190, 1569764204
748241887
Front Cover; Back Cover; Copyright; Contents; Preface; About the Terminology, and More; Part I Before Cuba; 1 The Highest-Priced Slaves; 2 Drums of War; 3 "We Have Always Had the Drum"; 4 Zarabanda's Mambo; Part II Colonial Cuba; 5 The Areíto and the Romance; 6 By Post from the Indies; 7 The Shipyard; 8 The Fertile Crescent; 9 The Atlantis of the Caribbean; 10 Buying Whites and Selling Blacks: A Contradanza; 11 La Nuit des Tropiques; Part III Afro-Cuba; 12 The Western and Central Sudanic Blues; 13 The Congo That Was Cuba; 14 A Secret Language, for Men Only; 15 Hiding in Plain Sight. Part IV Insurgent Cuba16 The Romance of Revolution; 17 Rumba; 18 Fire; Part V The Plattist Republic; 19 Martí's Monster; 20 Guitar and Piano; 21 If He Bathes, He Splashes You; 22 The Tango Age; 23 Tres and Bongó; 24 The Dance of the Millions; 25 The Son Boom; 26 The Mulata Love Triangles; 27 The Peanut Vendor; 28 The Fall; Part VI Batista in Power; 29 The Revolution of 1933; 30 The Liberation of the Drum; 31 Nagüe, Nagüe, Nagüe, Nagüe; 32 Mano a Mano; Part VII The Auténtico Years; 33 Diablo!; 34 Life Is a Dream; 35 Mambo Number Five; 36 Television; Coda; Suggested Listening; Notes