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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 ...
Alén studied violoncello with Professor Fabio Landa at Alejandro García Caturla Conservatory in Marianao, Havana, and at the Amadeo Roldán Conservatory in the same city. [1] He also studied psychology at the Havana University [ 2 ] and musicology in the Instituto Superior de Arte (ISA) where he graduated in 1982.
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.
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 ...
De la Vega was born in Havana, Cuba, November 28, 1925, educated at De La Salle College, Havana, 1940–1944 (B.A. in humanities); University of Havana, 1944–1946 (M.A. in diplomacy); Ada Iglesias Music Institute, Havana, 1951–1958 (M.A. in musicology, 1956; Ph.D. in composition, 1958) and studied composition privately with Fritz Kramer in Havana (1943–1946) and Ernst Toch in California ...
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Alternatively, in Cuba the term might have originated from a West African or Bantu language, due to its similarity to other Afro-Caribbean words such as tumba, macumba, mambo and tambó. [2] During the 19th century in Cuba, specifically in urban Havana and Matanzas, people of African descent originally used the word rumba as a synonym for party.
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]