Author: Manuel de la Cruz
Publisher: BiblioLife
Keywords: cubana, revolucion, episodios
Number of Pages: 216
Published: 2008-10-09
List price: $28.99
ISBN-10: 0559237987
ISBN-13: 9780559237980

Author: Maya Roy
Publisher: Markus Wiener Publisher
Keywords: social, club, timba, cubana, vista, buena, music, son, rumba, cuban
Number of Pages: 246
Published: 2002-10-01
List price: $22.95
ISBN-10: 1558762825
ISBN-13: 9781558762824

Native Americans supplied the maracas. African slaves brought drums and ritual music, and Spaniards brought guitars, brass instruments, and clarinets along with European ballroom dancing. The advent of blues and jazz gave new forms to styles of songs, notably feeling songs, which joined the more traditional styles of trova and bolero. Cuban culture represents a convergence of these diverse backgrounds, and the musical heritage presented in this book reflects these traditions as well. In colonial times, African ritual sounds mixed with Catholic liturgies and brass bands of the Spanish military

Author: Jose Lezama Lima
Publisher: Verbum
Keywords: chinese, ukrainian, russian, japanese, hindi, tamil, korean, bengali, gujarati, german, italian, vols, cubana, poesia, siglos, xvii, french, spanish, english, antologia
Number of Pages: 1856
Published: 2002-01-01
List price: unknow
ISBN-10: 8479622342
ISBN-13: 9788479622343

Los tres volumenes de la Antologia de la poesia cubana (1963), obra cononica que preparo debida y singularmente el escritor cubano JLL (1920-1976), se constituyeron de inmediato en una referencia imprescindible a fin de conocer la lirica de su pais. A la meticulosa seleccion de autores y textos, LL sum[o un sustancioso prologo e introducciones personalisimas a cada poeta para rastrear los origenes de la nacionalidad cubana. Se trata pues de una inteligente reconstruccion de los rasgos poeticos insulares desde swu mas temprano despertar hasta su consagracion en Jose Marti. Un cuarto volumen, a