Cuba and its music : from the first drums to the mambo / Ned Sublette.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Sublette, Ned, 1951-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Music--Cuba--History and criticism.

Music.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (690 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Chicago, Ill. : Chicago Press Review, c2004.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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 reveal

Contents:

Before Cuba

Colonial Cuba

Afro-Cuba

Insurgent Cuba

The plattist republic

Batista in power

The autentico years.

Notes:

"An A Cappella book."

Includes bibliographical references (p. 615-644) and index.

ISBN:

1-56976-419-0

1-55652-632-6

OCLC:

748241887