Music from Cuba: Mongo Santamaria, Chocolate Armenteros, and Other Stateside Cuban Musicians

Music from Cuba: Mongo Santamaria, Chocolate Armenteros, and Other Stateside Cuban Musicians

by Charles D. Gerard
ISBN-10:
0275966828
ISBN-13:
9780275966829
Pub. Date:
04/30/2001
Publisher:
Bloomsbury Academic
ISBN-10:
0275966828
ISBN-13:
9780275966829
Pub. Date:
04/30/2001
Publisher:
Bloomsbury Academic
Music from Cuba: Mongo Santamaria, Chocolate Armenteros, and Other Stateside Cuban Musicians

Music from Cuba: Mongo Santamaria, Chocolate Armenteros, and Other Stateside Cuban Musicians

by Charles D. Gerard

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Overview

Studies of Latin American music often overlook its Cuban roots and the political policies that brought the musicians to the United States. This work rectifies that omission by examining the Afro-Cuban influence upon Latin American music and its various idioms. A brief history of Afro-Cuban musicians in the United States provides the background and context for the study. Influential pre-revolutionary Afro-Cuban immigrant musicians, such as Mongo Santamaría, Jesus Caunedo, Charanga and Pup Legarreta, Juan Carlos Formell, and Alfredo Chocolate Armenteros, discuss both their music and their attitudes toward the political policies that led them to flee Cuba. Speaking from firsthand experience, founding figures of Latin music in the United States present unique insights into the Afro-Cuban experience within the Latin musical community.

Adding to the musicians' stories, Gerard provides a history of relations between Cubans, African Americans, and Puerto Ricans in the Latin music community. He also discusses the impact of the mass emigration in the 1980s that brought many more Cubans to the States. This multicultural approach to Latin American music will appeal to music and Latin American history scholars and to jazz and Latin music enthusiasts. An appendix includes album listings for the musicians interviewed.


Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780275966829
Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
Publication date: 04/30/2001
Pages: 168
Product dimensions: 6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.50(d)

About the Author

CHARLEY GERARD is a saxophonist and composer. He is the author of Jazz in Black and White (Greenwood, 1998).

Table of Contents

Introduction
Stateside Cuban Music
Afro-Cuban Musicians in the United States
The Cuban Revolution
Mongo Santamaría, Part 1
Santo and Santamaría in the United States: Mongo Santamaría, Part 2
Away from the Source: Mongo Santamaría, Part 3
Jesús Caunedo by George Rivera
Charanga and Pupi Legarreta
The Trombone Man: A Cuban Jazz Musician in the United States
Juan Carlos Formell by George Rivera
Alfredo "Chocolate" Armenteros by Richard Davies
Appendix
Album Titles
Notes
Glossary
Selected Bibliography
Index

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