Article: Cuba and Its Music: From the First Drums to the Mambo.(Cuban Music from A to Z)(Cubano Be, Cubano Bop: One Hundred Years of Jazz in Cuba)(Divine Utterances: The Performance of Afro-Cuban Santeria)(Book Review)

Article: Cubano Be, Cubano Bop: One Hundred Years of Jazz in ...
Latin Beat Magazine;  November 1, 2004 ;     644 words ...Cubano Be, Cubano Bop: One Hundred Years Of Jazz In Cuba Leonardo Acosta Smithsonian, 2004 (Foreword By Paquito D'Rivera, Translated by Daniel ...

Article: The re(public) of salsa: Afro-Cuban music in ...
Africa;  March 22, 2009 ;     700+ words ... ... despite its diminished popularity, Afro-Cuban music remains among the most performed musics ... many Senegalese have associated Afro-Cuban music with cosmopolitanism and modernity ... number of venues emerged where Afro-Cuban music is played and powerful older Dakarois ...

Article: A World of Cuban Music / Producer Greg Landau ...
San Francisco Chronicle;  September 10, 2000 ;     700+ words ... ... African and other world cultures meet. Cuban music exposes people to this appealing mix ... Room in San Francisco. His passion is Cuban music, and when he gets started on the subject ... It took on a cultural dimension." Cuban music has always exerted a strong influence ...

Article: Mode, melody, and harmony in traditional Afro-Cuban ...
Black Music Research Journal;  March 22, 2007 ;     700+ words ... ... attention. Published research on Afro-Cuban music has tended to focus on drumming (Amira ... modal and melodic aspects of Afro-Cuban music. (1) Study of these features is overdue. The melodic practices of Afro-Cuban music constitute a rich and in many ways internally ...

Article: Masters of Afro-Cuban music
The Boston Globe;  May 22, 1992 ;     700+ words ... ... Perhaps the premier bassist of Afro-Cuban music in the United States, he worries that ... traditional rhythms and forms in Afro-Cuban music, as well as many songs, were updated ... which revolutionized the sound of Afro-Cuban music in New York. Gonzalez, who worked ...

Article: AFRO-CUBAN ALL STARS ARE HELPING THE WORLD REDISCOVER ...
St Louis Post-Dispatch (MO);  April 3, 2000 ;     700+ words ...In the past several years, Cuban music has attained a level of popularity ... new album recreating the roots of Cuban music, mixing generations. I came back ... beginning of the end of isolation for Cuban music throughout the world." Gonzalez ...

Article: A Slice of History in Afro Cuban Music
Los Angeles Sentinel;  January 17, 2001 ;     581 words ... ... 17-2001 A Slice of History in Afro Cuban Music Real Rhythm Records was founded by Tom ... Stefan Witschi first fell in love with Cuban music. His father returned from a journey ... percussion. At a drum workshop an old Cuban music teacher encouraged him to go to Cuba ...