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The album captures the rhythmic and melodic patterns that are common to traditional West African and Afro-Cuban music. [5] The musicians involved in AfroCubism already had successful careers through participation in the Buena Vista Social Club or as solo artists. [6] The project has subsequently toured around the world as a successful live show ...
Clearly, the origin of African groups in Cuba is due to the island's long history of slavery. Compared to the USA, slavery started in Cuba much earlier and continued for decades afterwards. Cuba was the last country in the Americas to abolish the importation of slaves, and the second last to free the slaves.
Frontman with trompeta china of the Conga de Tivoli in Santiago de Cuba. The trompeta china (also called corneta china), a Cuban traditional wind instrument, is actually the Chinese suona, an instrument in the oboe family (and thus not a trumpet, despite its name) introduced to Cuba by Chinese immigrants during the colonial period (specifically the late nineteenth century).
“The fact that the modern Cuban bokú originates and is found only in the cities of Oriente, permits one to suppose that the bokú, with or without exact Bantu morphological antecedents, is an unusual type of drum in Cuba; but was adopted by the Cubans when, upon the prohibition of African drums, they resorted to new types of drums which, due ...
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Afro is a genre of Cuban popular music with African themes which gained prominence during the afrocubanismo movement in the early 20th century. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] It originated in the late 19th century Cuban blackface theatre, where some elements from Afro-Cuban music traditions such as Santería and Palo were incorporated into a secular context.
Arturo "Chico" O'Farrill (October 28, 1921 [1] – June 27, 2001) [2] was a Cuban composer, arranger, and conductor, best known for his work in the Latin idiom, specifically Afro-Cuban jazz or "Cubop", although he also composed traditional jazz pieces and even symphonic works.
Rolando Pérez developed extensive investigations about Afro-Cuban music and is well known for having documented and analyzed the process of transition from ternary rhythms to binary rhythms of the Cuban and Latin American popular music, during the 18th and 19th centuries, in his book: “Proceso de binarización de los ritmos ternarios ...