The Afro-Cuban community has a rich cultural history that dates back to the transatlantic slave trade, which brought millions ...

As Afro-Cuban rebel leader Antonio Maceo gained popularity among Cuban blacks, many Cuban white nationalists worried about the consequences of a racial rebellion and socio-economic revolution.

Culture is history, costumes and traditions ... Cuban art covers the different stages of the evolution of Afro-Cuban beliefs. There was a strong Catholicism imposed in colonial times that ...

But experts estimate that as many, or more, also follow Afro-Cuban traditions ... archdiocese of Havana and author of “History of the Catholic Church in Cuba.” Cuba’s religious landscape ...

Extending from the seventeenth to the twenty-first century, The Cambridge History of Cuban Literature is the first book in English to tell the intricate story of Cuban literary-intellectual culture ...

Kenny Dorham: trumpet. Jay Jay Johnson: trombone (1-5). Hank Mobley: tenor sax. Cecil Payne: baritone sax. Horace Silver: piano. Percy Heath (6-9), Oscar Pettiford (1 ...

Organized by topic, these essays synthesize and present the current state of knowledge on a broad variety of topics, including Afro-Latin American music, religions, literature, art history, political ...

Performing Afro-Cuba: Image, Voice, Spectacle in the Making of Race and History (University of Chicago Press, 2014; winner of 2015 Edward Sapir Prize from the Society for Linguistic Anthropology). She ...

Charlie Parker (saxophonist) and Machito recorded the Afro-Cuban Jazz Suite album in 1950, and pianist George Shearing recorded Latin Escapade in 1956.

Gillespie and Machito Afro-Cuban Jazz Moods The elements of music to consider Performing and composing ideas The impact of Afro-Cuban Jazz Moods ...

A Romare Bearden print served as a starting point for the American playwright's 1987 drama, which follows a Black family's struggle to decide the fate of an ancestral heirloom Gregory Wakeman The ...

Cuban Lullaby/Mambo; Yo Siempre Oddara; Despojo; Relax; El Montuno De Patato; Guaguanjira; La Comparsa; El Manisero; Comelon; Como Fué; Adios Pampa Mia; G.M.S ...