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1. Cuban Music & the world

Seminar material: 'Looking to the future' while 'dancing with the enemy'

Acosta's article on the USA dominance of Cuba after 'independence' from Spain in 1898

Orlando Fiol's article on clave - from West Africa to Cuba

Acosta's article on "Generic Complexes" in the study of Cuban music

Cushman - History of Cuban national music

Perna: Música bailable under the Revolution

Hernandez: 'Dancing with the enemy'

Recording of lecture 1 talking through PPT

Lecture 1: PPT - Music Place &amp; Politics in Cuba, the PPT

2. Cabildo, orishas, and saints

Semnar topic: Abakuá

Ivor Miller - Abakua goes public

Ishemo: From Africa to Cuba, Abakuá

Delgado: Perception of tradition in Cuban Iyesa music

Villepasteur: "Leading from the inside - the voice of a Cuban priestess"

Law: Lucumi and Nago as ethnonyms in the slave trade

Los Muñequitos de Matanzas do a song for Yemaya

Cabildo - an old pdf by Lucy , with some good material

Zoom recording of lecture and seminar, Cabildo

my PPT on Cabildo "part 2" , we only saw half of it today!!!

3. Rumba: an Afrocuban tradition

List of readings and viewings for session on Rumba

Puntilla - tribute to "Tio Tom" (sleeve notes)

Yvonne Daniel on Rumba &amp; the Revolution

Larry Crook on musical features of Rumba

PPT shown in class today

Zoom recording of today's lecture &amp; presentations (RUMBA)

4. Roots of SON, from Oriente to Havana

Robin Moore: Nationalizing Blackness chapter 4

Lapidus: article on Changüí of Guantanamo

Peter Manuel on the Guajira genre, from Cuba to Spain and back

Acosta's article on "generic complexes" in Cuban music

Music in Cuba, by Alejo Carpentier and Alan West-Durán

Zoom recordings of Lecture Topic 4: Roots of son (trova, changüí, guajira)

PPT on the roots of son, shown in class

NED SUBLETTE'S CHAPTER ON SON IN THE 1920s - the 'Son Boom'

NED SUBLETTE'S CHAPTER ON THE EXPORT OF SON AS 'RUMBA', 1920s

Zoom recording of presentations on early son

Rosa Lynch-Northover's presentation on PIANO TUMBAO/ MONTUNO it's on YouTube!!!

5. Son Montuno, conjunto, and charanga

David Garcia chapter on Arsenio Rodriguez

NED SUBLETTE'S CHAPTER ON THE 1940S IN CUBA AND THE "LIBERATION OF THE DRUM"

NED SUBLETTE'S CHAPTER on ARSENIO

Updated PPT on Arsenio

Zoom recording of lecture / PPT on Arsenio

Zoom recordings of student presentations on Arsenio

6. The wicked 50s - chachacha, mambo, big band

David Garcia on mambo

Danzon sleeve notes

The Mambo Kings - 30s-50s

Garcia: 'Going primitive to mambo'

Zoom recording of PPT on Danzón and the transnational impact of 1950s Cuban music

PPT: Danzón, charanga, mambo, cha cha

Zoom recording, part 1 of week 6 class

Zoom recording of part 2 of week6 class

Beny Moré- PPT - PLEASE WATCH!!!!

Moore's Ch.1: Revelry &amp; Revolution - the paradox of the 1950s

7. Revolution, Afrocuban culture , Nueva trova & jazz

Robin Moore: Revolution with pachanga

Perna's book on Timba: chapter 1 - dance music in the Revolution

Musical cartography of Havana

Transformations in Nueva Trova

From Afro-Cuban rhythms to latin Jazz

Irakere - two tracks, Juana 1600 and Bacalao con pan, with musical analysis by Hannah Bates

Robin Moore, chapter 2: Music and social change in the first years

Zoom recording of lecture with PPT, The first years of the Revolution

Week 8 Zoom recording of presentations (Nazra, Joe, Daniel)

Week 8, Zoom recording of discussion

Lucy's two PPTs - Fidel's revolution (no music included), &amp; overview of Cuban music in the 1960s

Nazra's PPT on Celia Cruz

Lecture 1: PPT - Music Place & Politics in Cuba, the PPT

Yvonne Daniel on Rumba & the Revolution

Zoom recording of today's lecture & presentations (RUMBA)

Moore's Ch.1: Revelry & Revolution - the paradox of the 1950s

Lucy's two PPTs - Fidel's revolution (no music included), & overview of Cuban music in the 1960s

Robin Moore: Music & Revolution - the book pdf

The two Presentations by Fi and Ana - on Irakere & "What makes Cuban Music Cuban"

Perna's book on TIMBA - chapters 4 & 5

PPT on TIMBA & the 1990s

Reggaeton in Cuba - gender & sexuality, Jan Fairley