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Cubano be, Cubano bop: one hundred years of jazz in Cuba

By Acosta , Leonardo

Book information

Publisher
Smithsonian
ISBN
158834147X, 9781588345479, 1588345475
Language
english
Format
EPUB
Filesize
6 MB (6349703 bytes)
Pages
(xvi, 288 pages) : illustrations\0
Time added
2020-07-26 19:24:52
etc;Jazz -- Cuba -- History and criticism;Cuba;KubGeschichte 1900-2000;Jazz;Jazz--Cuba--History andinterpretation

Description

Cab Calloway, Nat King Cole, Sarah Vaughan, and Dizzy Gillespie are just a few of the great North American musicians who figure prominently in Leonardo Acosta's account of the influence of Cuban music on jazz."--Jacket. Foreword / Paquito D'Rivera -- Preface / Raul Fernandez -- Cuban Music and Jazz: First Encounters -- The Twenties and the First Jazz Ensembles -- The Big Bands and the Contradictory 1930s -- The Forties: Bebop, Feeling, and Mambo -- The Explosion of Cubop or Afro-Cuban Jazz -- Havana in the 1950s -- End of the Decade: The Club Cubano de Jazz -- Musical Transition: 1959 and After -- Irakere and the Takeoff of Cuban Jazz.

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