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! Read * Cuban Fire: The Story of Salsa and Latin Jazz by Isabelle Leymarie ✓ eBook or Kindle ePUB. Cuban Fire: The Story of Salsa and Latin Jazz It's very complete !!! For lovers of the real salsa music, Cuban and Puerto Rico's music, this is a excelent book. Show the beginning of salsa, cha cha cha, mambo, plena, bomba, guajira, guaguanco, danzon, son, montuno and every rhythm about that times and the present, personally that's was . "Terrific!" according to Charles Gerard. This book has everything: inside stories about the music and -- most importantly --song lyrics in Spanish and English translation. With a complete and exhaustive his
| Title | : | Cuban Fire: The Story of Salsa and Latin Jazz |
| Author | : | |
| Rating | : | 4.10 (895 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0826455867 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 400 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 0000-00-00 |
| Language | : | French |
On the island of tobacco, rum and coffee, the marriage of sacred and secular African musical genres with Spanish and French melodies has given rise to numerous genres which have gained international fame: son, rhumba, guaracha, conga, mambo, cha-cha-cha, pachanga, nueva timba. In New York, the boogaloo, salsa and Latin jazz, created by musicians such as Machito, Dizzy Gillespie and Chano Pozo emerged from contact with Puerto Ricans and African-Americans, and the rhythms of Puerto Rico and Santo Domingo were integrated into salsa and Latin jazz.. Afro-Cuban music deriv
Isabelle Leymarie, a pianist and musicologist, has been involved with jazz and Latin music for many years. She has taught at academic institutions. She has co-directed and written documentaries, produced radio shows in Europe and Canada and written books including Cuba and Its Music (Le Chene, Paris, 1999) which won the French 'Prix des Muses'
It's very complete !!! For lovers of the real salsa music, Cuban and Puerto Rico's music, this is a excelent book. Show the beginning of salsa, cha cha cha, mambo, plena, bomba, guajira, guaguanco, danzon, son, montuno and every rhythm about that times and the present, personally that's was . "Terrific!" according to Charles Gerard. This book has everything: inside stories about the music and -- most importantly --song lyrics in Spanish and English translation. With a complete and exhaustive history of Cuban music it's much more than Latin jazz as the title seems to indicate.
From Library Journal Cuba's unique blend of African, Spanish, and French cultures has produced an international musical legacy of unparalleled popularity. Essential wherever books on popular music are collected.Dave Valencia, King Cty. Scott Yanow's Afro-Cuban Jazz is reasonably scholarly, but the scope is not as broad. An award-winning author and a documentary filmmaker, Leymarie traces the history of Cuban music and its major artists from the 1920s to today with ardor and verve. Cuban Fire occupies the middle ground between those two otherwise terrific books and is the one to choose if you can't afford all three. Lib. Other recent excellent books on Cuban music include Sue
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