Cuban Fire: The Story Of Salsa And Latin Jazz

Cuban Fire: The Story Of Salsa And Latin Jazz by Isabelle Leymarie


ISBN
9780826465665
Published
Binding
Paperback
Pages
400
Dimensions
170 x 243 x 23mm

A study of the rich cultures and rhythms that have wedded together to make Cuban music.

In 'Cuban Fire', the prize-winning author Isabelle Leymarie tells the thrilling story 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 many cultures. On the island of tobacco, rum and coffee, nicknamed 'The Green Caiman' because of its long and curvy shape, the wedding of sacred and secular African musical genres with Spanish and French melodies gave rise to numerous genres that have gained international fame: son, rhumba, guaracha, conga, mambo, cha-cha-cha, pachanga, and nueva timba.

The history of Cuban music also unfolds in the United States, where large Cuban, Puerto Rican, Dominican and other Hispanic communities have established themselves over the years. It was in New York, indeed, that the boogaloo, salsa and Latin jazz, created by such musicians as Machito, Mario Bauz , Dizzy Gillespie and Chano Pozo, emerged out of the contact with the Puerto Ricans and African-Americans of that city.

This major reference book also deals with the incandescent rhythms of Puerto Rico and - to a lesser degree - Santo Domingo, integrated today into salsa and Latin jazz.
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