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Music from Cuba Mongo Santamaría, Chocolate Armenteros, and Other Stateside Cuban Musicians
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Charley Gerard
Book Code: C6682
ISBN: 0-275-96682-8
ISBN-13: 978-0-275-96682-9
168 pages, music samples
Praeger Publishers
Publication: 4/30/2001
List Price: $115.00 (UK Sterling Price: £65.00)
Availability: Out of stock
Media Type: Hardcover
Also Available: Ebook
Trim Size: 6 1/8 x 9 1/4
Subjects: Reviews:
  • A useful addition to a growing list of books devoted to Latin music emanating from Cuba and Puerto Rico....the book will be a great resource for enthusiasts....
    —Choice     December 2001
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
LC Card Number: 00-045148
LCC Class: ML394
Dewey Class: 780
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