- Hardcover: 400 pages
- Publisher: Continuum International Publishing Group (October 2002)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 0826455867
- ISBN-13: 978-0826455864
This title tells the saga of popular music of Cuban origin, and its
major artists from the 1920s to today. Afro-Cuban music derives its
richness from the fusion of various cultures. On the island of tobacco,
rum and coffee, the marriage of sacred and secular African musical
genres with Spanish and French melodies has given rise to numerous
genres which have gained international fame: son, rhumba, guaracha,
conga, mambo, cha-cha-cha, pachanga, nueva timba. In the US, Cubans have
settled alongside other Hispanic communities. In New York, the
boogaloo, salsa and Latin jazz, created by musicians such as Machito,
Dizzy Gillespie and Chano Pozo emerged from contact with Puerto Ricans
and African-Americans, and the rhythms of Puerto Rico and Santo Domingo
were integrated into salsa and Latin jazz.
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