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Cuban Music: From Son and Rumba to the Buena Vista Social Club and Timba Cubana by Maya Roy Hardcover from Markus Wiener Publishers

Cuban Music from A to Z by Helio Orovio Paperback from Duke University Press

The Rough Guide to Cuban Music (Rough Guide Music Guides) by Philip Sweeney Paperback from Rough Guides -

Afro-Cuban Rhythms for Drumset (Manhattan Music Publications - Drummers Collective Series) by Dan Thress Paperback from Warner Brothers Publications

Music from Cuba: Mongo Santamaria, Chocolate Armenteros, and Other Stateside Cuban Musicians by Charles D. Gerard Hardcover from Praeger

Salsiology: Afro-Cuban Music and the Evolution of Salsa in New York City.: An article from: Notes by Ted Solis Digital from Music Library Association, Inc. - Availability: Available for download now

From Afro-Cuban Rhythms to Latin Jazz (Music of the African Diaspora) by Raul A. Fernandez Paperback from University of California Press

Guitar Music of Cuba: A Collection of Popular Cuban Music (Spanish Edition) Paperback from Omnibus Press

Timba: The Sound Of The Cuban Crisis (Soas Musicology Series) (Soas Musicology Series) by Vincenzo Perna Cuban music is recognized unanimously as a major historical force behind Latin American popular music, and as an important player in the development of US popular music and jazz. However, the music produced on the island after the Revolution in 1959 has been largely overlooked and overshadowed by the Buena Vista Social Club phenomenon. The Revolution created the conditions for the birth of a type of highly sophisticated popular music, which has grown relatively free from market pressures. These conditions premised the new importance attained by Afro-Cuban dance music during the 1990s, when the island entered a period of deep economic and social crisis that has shaken Revolutionary institutions from their foundations. Vincenzo Perna investigates the role of black popular music in post-Revolutionary Cuba, and in the 1990s in particular. The emergence of timba is analysed as a distinctively new style of Afro-Cuban dance music. The controversial role of Afro-Cuban working class culture is highlighted, showing how this has resisted co-optation into a unified, pacified vision of national culture, and built musical bridges with the transnational black diaspora. Musically, timba represents an innovative fusion of previous popular and folkloric Afro-Cuban styles with elements of hip-hop and other African-American styles like jazz, funk and salsa. Timba articulates a black urban youth subculture with distinctive visual and choreographic codes. With its abrasive commentaries on issues such as race, consumer culture, tourism, prostitution and its connections to the underworld, timba demonstrates at the 'street level' many of the contradictions of contemporary Cuban society. After repeatedly colliding with official discourses, timba has eventually met with institutional repression. This book will appeal not only to ethnomusicologists and those working on popular music studies, but also to those working in the areas of cultural and Black studies, anthropology, Latin American studies, Cuban studies and Caribbean studies.  Hardcover from Ashgate Publishing

Beyond Salsa Piano: The Cuban Timba Piano Revolution: Vol. 1: Beginning - The Roots of the Piano Tumbao (Volume 1) by Kevin Moore Paperback from BookSurge Publishing

Music of Cuba: Cuban jazz, Cuban Rumba, Zarzuela, Guaracha, Trova, Punto guajiro, Habanera (music), Danzón, Son (music), Changüí, Batá drum, Conga (comparsa), ... (music), Cha-cha-cha (music), Nueva trova Paperback from Alphascript Publishing

Salsiology: Afro-Cuban Music and the Evolution of Salsa in N.Y. City by Vernon W. Boggs Paperback from Empire Pub Service

Essays on Cuban Music: North American and Cuban Perspectives by Peter Manuel Hardcover from University Press of America

Mel Bay Presents Traditional Afro-Cuban Concepts in Contemporary Music by Arturo Rodriguez Spiral-bound from Mel Bay Publications, Inc.

Cuban Music from A-Z: The World's First Dictionary of Cuban Music by Helio Orovio Paperback from Imprint unknown

Afro-Cuban Traditional Music and Transculturation by Nolan Warden Paperback from VDM Verlag Dr. Mueller e.K.

Fidel Morales: semper fidelis * (to Cuban music).(Entrevista): An article from: Latin Beat Magazine by Luis Tamargo Digital from Thomson Gale - Availability: Available for download now

Salsiology: Afro-Cuban Music and the Evolution of Salsa in New York City (Contributions to the Study of Music and Dance) by Vernon W. Boggs Hardcover from Greenwood Press

Conga: Cuba, Africa, Makuta (drum), Afro- Cuban, Central Africa, Afro- Caribbean, Cuban Rumba, Latin American music, Salsa music, Merengue music, Reggaeton, Popular music, List of conga players Paperback from Alphascript Publishing

 
 
 

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