Music in Cuba

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 - 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.

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 from the sixteenth to the twentieth centuries. Carpentier covers European-style elite Cuban music as well as the popular worlds of rural Spanish folk and Afro-Cuban urban music.

ISBN	0816632294	Pages	312
ISBN13	9780816632299 (What's this?)	Volumes	1
Publisher	University of Minnesota Press	Weight (grammes)	535
Imprint	University of Minnesota Press	Published in	Minneapolis
Format	Hardback	Series ISSN	05
Publication date	05 Mar 2001	Series title	Cultural Studies of the Americas (Hardcover)
Translator	Alan West-Duran	Height (mm)	235
Writer of introduction	Brennan, Timothy	Width (mm)	158
Library of Congress	00011171	Spine width (mm)	23
DEWEY	780.97291	Academic level	General
DEWEY edition	DC21

	Introduction to the English Edition by Timothy Brennan	1
	Preface	59
1	The Sixteenth Century	65
2	The Seventeenth Century	89
3	Esteban Salas	106
4	Salon and Theater at the End of the Eighteenth Century	119
5	A Plot in the Cathedral of Havana	132
6	Introduction to the Contradanza	142
7	Blacks in Cuba	153
8	The Beginning of the Nineteenth Century	166
9	Antonio Raffelin-Juan Paris	177
10	Saumell and Nationalism	185
11	Espadero, the Romantic	194
12	Ignacio Cervantes	204
13	Cuban Bufos	214
14	Laureano Fuentes-Gasper Villate	235
15	A Transition Period	243
16	Afro-Cubanism	256
17	Amadeo Roldan-Alejandro Garcia Caturia	268
	Notes	283
	Bibliography	291
	Index	297

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