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| Title: | Cuba & Its Music
: From the First Drums to the Mambo |
| Author: | Ned Sublette |
| ISBN: | 1556525168 : 9781556525162 |
| Illustrations: | illus |
| Format: | Hardback |
| Size: | 155x230mm |
| Pages: | 672 |
| Weight: | 1.07 Kg. |
| Published: | IPG (Chicago Review Press) - July 2004 |
| List Price: | 13.5 Pounds Sterling |
| Availability: | In Print |
| Subjects: | Folk music: Cuba |
This entertaining history of Cuba and its music begins with the collision of Spain and Africa and continues through the era of Miguelito Valdés, Arsenio Rodríguez, Benny Moré, and Pérez Prado. It offers a behind-the-scenes examination of music from a Cuban point of view, unearthing surprising, provocative connections and making a case for Cuba as fundamental to the evolution of music in the New World. Revealed are how the music of black slaves transformed 16th-century Europe, how the 'claves' appeared, and how Cuban music influenced ragtime, jazz, and rhythm and blues. Music lovers will follow this journey from Andalucía, the Congo, the Calabar, Dahomey, and Yorubaland via Cuba to Mexico, Puerto Rico, Saint-Domingue, New Orleans, New York, and Miami. The music is placed in a historical context that considers the complexities of the slave trade; Cuba's relationship to the United States; its revolutionary political traditions; the music of Santería, Palo, Abakuá, Vodú, and much more.
"Approachable both for readers new to the country's rich musical history and for devotees who have already succumbed to its rhythms." -- Booklist. "Told with humor, affection and authority, this account... is destined to become one of the definitive texts on the subject." -- Global Rhythm Magazine. "Essential... a solid, supremely lush effort." -- Publishers Weekly. "A magnificent labor of love and advocacy... Remarkably thorough yet genially readable." -- New York Times. "If you buy only one book on Cuba in your life... this is the one." -- Anne Louise Bardach, The Nation. "Sets a high standard for cultural studies... stimulating, well-informed and broad in scope." -- The Shepherd Express. "It was Cuba that turned the beat around, and thanks to Sublette any serious music fan will now know why." -- The New York Times Book Review. "(Sublette) has added a major work to the tiny canon of social histories of music -- perhaps even the grandest of them all." -- The Los Angeles Times.
