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Her work has been compiled in the “Ethnographic Atlas of Cuba,” which received an award from the Cuban Academy of Science. [1] Argeliers León and his wife María Teresa Linares Savio were the leading figures of Cuban musicology during the early decades after the Cuban Revolution (1959). Between 1961 and 1970, León was de director of the ...
Maria Teresa Linares Savio, Musicologist, and Ethnographer, was born in Havana, Cuba on August 14, 1920. She has dedicated her life as a professor and Cuban Music researcher Maria Teresa Linares Savio (14 August 1920 – 26 January 2021) was a Cuban musicologist, ethnographer, and researcher of Cuban music.
The music of Cuba, including its instruments, performance, and dance, comprises a large set of unique traditions influenced mostly by west African and European (especially Spanish) music. [1] Due to the syncretic nature of most of its genres, Cuban music is often considered one of the richest and most influential regional music in the world.
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Fortunately, the theology [sic.] of the generic complexes has been viewed with skepticism within the musicology circles from various countries, including Cuba, where some musicologists have oscillated between rejection, skepticism and depise… According to Cuban composer and musicographist Armando Rodríguez Ruidíaz: [4]
Cuba was the last country in the Americas to abolish the importation of slaves, and the second last to free the slaves. In 1807 the British Parliament outlawed slavery, and from then on the British Navy acted to intercept Portuguese and Spanish slave ships. By 1860 the trade with Cuba was almost extinguished; the last slave ship to Cuba was in ...
Gilbert Chase (4 September 1906, Havana, Cuba – 22 February 1992, Chapel Hill, North Carolina [1]) was an American music historian, critic and author, and a "seminal figure in the field of musicology and ethnomusicology." He was the maternal cousin of the writer and diarist Anais Nin.
Alejo Carpentier. Alejo Carpentier y Valmont (Spanish pronunciation: [karpanˈtje], French pronunciation: [kaʁpɑ̃tje]; December 26, 1904 – April 24, 1980) was a Cuban novelist, essayist, and musicologist who greatly influenced Latin American literature during its famous "boom" period.