Music in Cuba / Alejo Carpentier ; edited and with an introduction by Timothy Brennan ; translated by Alan West-Durán.

Author/creator Carpentier, Alejo
Other author Brennan, Timothy.
Format Book
Publication InfoMinneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, ©2001.
Description302 pages : music ; 24 cm.
Subjects
Music--Cuba. --History and criticism.

Uniform titleMúsica en Cuba. English
SeriesCultural studies of the Americas ; v. 5
Cultural studies of the Americas ; v. 5. ^A413273
Contents Introduction to the English edition / Timothy Brennan -- 1. Sixteenth century -- 2. Seventeenth century -- 3. Esteban Salas -- 4. Salon and theater at the end of the eighteenth century -- 5. Plot in the cathedral of Havana -- 6. Introduction to the Contradanza -- 7. Blacks in Cuba -- 8. Beginning of the nineteenth century -- 9. Antonio Raffelin-Juan París -- 10. Saumell and nationalism -- 11. Espadero, the romantic -- 12. Ignacio Cervantes -- 13. Cuban Bufos -- 14. Laureano Fuentes-Gaspar Villate -- 15. Transition period -- 16. Afro-Cubanism -- 17. Amadeo Roldan-Alejandro Garcia Caturla -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.
Abstract The foundational work on Cuban music by a major figure of the twentieth century, now in English for the first time. In the wake of the Buena Vista Social Club, the world has rediscovered the rich musical tradition of Cuba. A unique combination of popular and elite influences, the music of this island nation has fascinated since the golden age of the son and that New World aural collision of Africa and Europe that made Cuban music the rage in Paris, New York, and Mexico beginning in the 1920s. Originally published in 1946 and never before available in an English translation, Music in Cuba is not only the best and most extensive study of Cuban musical history, it is a work of literature in its own right. Drawing on such primary documents as obscure church circulars, dog-eared musical scores pulled from attics, and the records of the Spanish colonial authorities, Music in Cuba sweeps panoramically from the sixteenth into the twentieth century. Carpentier covers European-style elite Cuban music as well as the popular worlds of rural Spanish folk and urban Afro-Cuban music. In a substantial introduction based on extensive original research, Timothy Brennan explores Carpentier's career prior to the writing of his novels. Looking especially at Carpentier's work as a music reviewer, radio producer, and musical theorist, Brennan suggests new ways of thinking about the role of Latin American artists in Europe between the wars, and the central place of radio and music-club cultures in the European avant-gardes.
General noteTranslation of: Música en Cuba.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references (pages 291-295) and index.
LCCN 00011171
ISBN0816632294 (hardcover)
ISBN0816632308 (pbk.)

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