Essays on Cuban music : North American and Cuban perspectives / edited by Peter Manuel.

Other author Manuel, Peter, 1952-
Format Book
Publication InfoLanham, MD : University Press of America, ©1991.
Descriptionxvi, 327 pages ; 23 cm
Subjects
Music--Cuba. --History and criticism.
Cuban Americans--New York (State). --New York. --Music. --History and criticism.

Contents Notes toward a panorama of popular and folk music / Argeliers Leon -- Tambor / Rogelio Martinez Fure -- The rumba, the guaguanco, and Tio Tom / Leonardo Acosta -- The tumba francesa / Olavo Alen Rodriguez -- The decima and punto in Cuban folklore / Maria Teresa Linares -- The charanga in New York and the persistence of the tipico style / John Murphy -- "Drumming for the orishas": reconstruction of tradition in New York City / Steven Cornelius -- Salsa and the music industry: corporate control or grassroots expression? / Peter Manuel -- The problem of music and its dissemination in Cuba / Leonardo Acosta -- Institutions, incentives, and evaluations in Cuban music-making / James Robbins -- Regarding folklore / Rogelio Martinez Fure -- Of the axle and the hinge: nationalism, Afro-Cubanism, and music in pre-revolutionary Cuba / Argeliers Leon -- Musical pluralism in revolutionary Cuba / Peter Manuel.
Abstract The first book-length study on Cuban music in the English language. This volume consists of thirteen articles written by nine authors, including four Cuban scholars and five North American ethnomusicologists. The articles by Cuban scholars, translated from largely out-of-print publications, constitute a selection of some of the best Cuban research on their island's music, and present a set of perspectives which complement those of the North American authors. The articles cover such areas as descriptions of the Afro-Haitian derived tumba francesa, the traditional Afro-Cuban rumba, and the rural punto, as cultivated by peasants of Hispanic descent; aspects of the music bureaucracy in contemporary Cuba; the American music industry's dissemination of Cuban-derived salsa in New York City; Afro-Cuban cult music; the history and current status of charanga dance bands; and more.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references and index.
LCCN 91027250
ISBN0819184306 (cloth : alk. paper)

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