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This entertaining history of Cuba and its music begins with the collision of Spain and Africa and continues through the era of Miguelito Valdés, Arsenio Rodríguez, Benny Moré, and Pérez Prado. It offers a behind-the-scenes examination of music from a Cuban point of view, unearthing surprising, provocative connections and making the case that Cuba was fundamental to the evolution of music in the New World. The ways in which the music of black slaves transformed 16th-century Europe, how the claves appeared, and how Cuban music influenced ragtime, jazz, and rhythm and blues are reveal

Music --- History and criticism. --- 78.36 --- C3 --- muziek --- Cuba [land in werelddeel Amerika] --- Kunst en cultuur

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Samba is Brazil's ""national rhythm,"" the foremost symbol of its culture and nationhood. To the outsider, samba and the famous pre-Lenten carnival of which it is the centerpiece seem to showcase the country's African heritage. Within Brazil, however, samba symbolizes the racial and cultural mixture that, since the 1930s, most Brazilians have come to believe defines their unique national identity. But how did Brazil become ""the Kingdom of Samba"" only a few decades after abolishing slavery in 1888? Typically, samba is represented as having changed spontaneously, mysteriously, from a ""rep

Music -- Social aspects -- Brazil. --- Popular music -- Brazil -- History and criticism. --- Sambas -- History and criticism. --- 78.36 --- Popular music --- Brazil --- History and criticism --- Samba (Dance) --- Music and society

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The first in-depth, comparative, and interdisciplinary study of indigenous Amazonian musical cultures, Burst of Breath showcases new research on the dynamic range of ritual power and social significance of various wind instruments-including flutes, trumpets, clarinets, and whistles-played in sacred rituals and ceremonies in Lowland South America. The editors provide a detailed overview of the historical significance, scientific classification, shamanic and cosmological associations, and changing social meanings of ritual wind instruments within Amazonian cultures. Th

Indians of South America --- Wind instruments --- Instruments, Wind --- Winds (Musical instruments) --- Musical instruments --- American aborigines --- American Indians --- Indigenous peoples --- Rites and ceremonies. --- Music --- History and criticism. --- Ethnology --- 78.36