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According to the Cuban popular music "Generic complex theory", Cuban folk music is classified as follows: Punto cubano Complex, with its variations Punto libre y Punto fijo. Rumba Complex, with its components Yambú, Guaguancó, Columbia, Conga and Comparsa. Danzón Complex, with its variants Contradanza, Danzón, Danzonete, Mambo and Cha-cha-chá.
Trova is a style of Cuban popular music originating in the 19th century. Trova was created by itinerant musicians known as trovadores who travelled around Cuba's Oriente province, especially Santiago de Cuba, and earned their living by singing and playing the guitar. [1]
Silvio Rodríguez Domínguez (born 29 November 1946) is a Cuban musician, and leader of the Nueva Trova movement.. He is widely considered as Cuba's best folk singer and arguably one of Latin America's greatest singer-songwriters. [1]
[8] p181 Aside from rural music and Afro-Cuban folk music, the most popular kind of urban Creole dance music in the 19th century was the contradanza, which commenced as a local form of the English country dance and the derivative French contredanse and Spanish contradanza. While many contradanzas were written for dance, from the mid-century ...
Miguel Fleitas, (born 1956), Cuban-born American visual artist, photographer, and film director Jose Emilio Fuentes Fonseca , (born 1974), Cuban outsider artist Lourdes Gomez Franca (1933–c. 2018) Cuban-born American painter and poet, active in Miami
Cuban folk music (1 C, 2 P) G. Guajira (music) (2 C, 2 P) ... Pages in category "Cuban styles of music" The following 36 pages are in this category, out of 36 total.
Cuba's artists are rising to the occasion during the coronavirus lockdown, taking to rooftops and balconies to create music or dance. Now, Alejandro and Leticia Silva rehearse ballet on the ...
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