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Music from Cuba Mongo Santamar^D'ia, Chocolate Armenteros, and Other Stateside Cuban Musicians
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Charley Gerard
ISBN: 0-275-96682-8
ISBN-13: 978-0-275-96682-9
168 pages
Praeger Publishers
Publication: 4/30/2001
List Price: $115.00 (UK Sterling Price: £79.95)
Availability: In Stock
Media Type: Hardcover
Also Available: Ebook
Trim Size: 6 1/8 x 9 1/4
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Description: Studies of Latin American music often overlook its Cuban roots and the political policies that brought the musicians to the United States. This work rectifies that omission by examining the Afro-Cuban influence upon Latin American music and its various idioms. A brief history of Afro-Cuban musicians in the United States provides the background and context for the study. Influential pre-revolutionary Afro-Cuban immigrant musicians, such as Mongo SantamarÍa, Jesus Caunedo, Charanga and Pup Legarreta, Juan Carlos Formell, and Alfredo Chocolate Armenteros, discuss both their music and their attitudes toward the political policies that led them to flee Cuba. Speaking from firsthand experience, founding figures of Latin music in the United States present unique insights into the Afro-Cuban experience within the Latin musical community.

Adding to the musicians' stories, Gerard provides a history of relations between Cubans, African Americans, and Puerto Ricans in the Latin music community. He also discusses the impact of the mass emigration in the 1980s that brought many more Cubans to the States. This multicultural approach to Latin American music will appeal to music and Latin American history scholars and to jazz and Latin music enthusiasts. An appendix includes album listings for the musicians interviewed.
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction
    Stateside Cuban Music
    Afro-Cuban Musicians in the United States
    The Cuban Revolution
    Mongo Santamaría, Part 1
    Santo and Santamaría in the United States: Mongo Santamaría, Part 2
    Away from the Source: Mongo Santamaría, Part 3
    Jesús Caunedo by George Rivera
    Charanga and Pupi Legarreta
    The Trombone Man: A Cuban Jazz Musician in the United States
    Juan Carlos Formell by George Rivera
    Alfredo "Chocolate" Armenteros by Richard Davies
    Appendix
    Album Titles
    Notes
    Glossary
    Selected Bibliography
    Index
About the Author: CHARLEY GERARD is a saxophonist and composer. He is the author of Jazz in Black and White (Greenwood, 1998).
LCC Class: 780
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