- Hardcover: 672 pages
- Publisher: Chicago Review Press (1 July 2004)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 1556525168
- ISBN-13: 978-1556525162
- Product Dimensions: 23.6 x 16.3 x 4.2 cm
- Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
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"Approachable both for readers new to the country's rich musical history and for devotees who have already succumbed to its rhythms." -- Booklist. "Told with humor, affection and authority, this account... is destined to become one of the definitive texts on the subject." -- Global Rhythm Magazine. "Essential... a solid, supremely lush effort." -- Publishers Weekly. "A magnificent labor of love and advocacy... Remarkably thorough yet genially readable." -- New York Times. "If you buy only one book on Cuba in your life... this is the one." -- Anne Louise Bardach, The Nation. "Sets a high standard for cultural studies... stimulating, well-informed and broad in scope." -- The Shepherd Express. "It was Cuba that turned the beat around, and thanks to Sublette any serious music fan will now know why." -- The New York Times Book Review. "(Sublette) has added a major work to the tiny canon of social histories of music -- perhaps even the grandest of them all." -- The Los Angeles Times.
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Separated from Europe by the Pyrenees on the northeast and from North Africa by the narrow Strait of Gibraltar to the south-through each of which gateways it has been invaded various times-the Iberian peninsula's physical isolation created its identity. Read the first page
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Separated from Europe by the Pyrenees on the northeast and from North Africa by the narrow Strait of Gibraltar to the south-through each of which gateways it has been invaded various times-the Iberian peninsula's physical isolation created its identity. Read the first page
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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
I've loved Cuban music for a decade, but Sublette made it clear how little I knew. This book is a magnificent sociological & musicological achievement, intended for a general--but interested--audience. It's deeply impressive & I hear so much more now than I did before.
He takes the long view. It's not many books on Cuban music that would start with 'When the Phoenicians colonised Spain...'!
He takes the long view. It's not many books on Cuban music that would start with 'When the Phoenicians colonised Spain...'!
4 of 5 people found the following review helpful
Format:Hardcover
Wow! what an achievment...a beautiful book of real depth in explaining why cuban music sounds the way it does, but at the same time readable by anyone with even just a passing interest. I particularly liked the way he breaks down the different( and central)influences from the different parts of Africa, with their respective religions and cultures, and what were the global forces and events that dictated how and when these different african groups came to Cuba, into the human cauldron that produced cuban music and culture...This, I suspect, has never been done by an english-speaking writer before, at least not one who understands the music first hand (who has dug it,played it,and mingled with it for many years), and yet at the same time can approach the subject with a keen, rigourous academic/historical/musicological eye as well...which, let's face it, you need if you are going to try to write about such a deep and many-splendoured subject as this.A staggering amount of research has gone into this work,and you know what?.. I bet he enjoyed every minute of it!! ACHE, bruv!
Format:Paperback
Just finished reading this on a trip to Cuba, and cannot recommend it too highly. For someone who knew little about either the island or its music, its interweaving of history and music made for compelling and highly informative reading. I was disappointed only that it finishes at 1950: come on Mr Sublette, give us Volume 2 !!
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