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Cuba's 'Music City': Wellsping of an Island's Culture |
| Section: CULTURE / PEOPLES |
| Author: Mark Holston |
| Publication: The world & I online |
| Issue Date: 1/1/2002 |
| Size: 2,430 Words, 15,259 Characters |
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Although economically disadvantaged--and politically repressed--throughout much of its history, this small Caribbean country emerged early in the past century as an extraordinary cultural influence, particularly as exemplified by its influential popular music. Indeed, throughout much of the twentieth century, it was difficult to find a region of the world that had not become infatuated with Cuban song.
In the 1930s, ensembles of Cuban musicians performing such period classics as "El Manicero" (The Peanut Vendor) became the toast of the Continent and the Americas. By the late 1940s, just when the swing era/big-band movement went into serious decline in the United States, venerable Afro-Cuban rhythms fused with the emerging, highly improvisational bebop style of modern jazz to create a ...
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...e from residents of small towns in the land of its birth, bastions of the son tradition, to a vast international audience that has become jaded by the increasingly vulgar tone of popular music and thirsts for more elemental styles. "It has a minimal amount of influences," he continues. "It's easy to listen and dance to. It's tranquil. And, perhaps most important, it has pleasure and heart."
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