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A Bibliographic Guide By John Gray Price: $124.95 Binding: Cloth ISBN: 978-0-9844134-2-3 629 pages African Diaspora Press Pub. Date: Feb. 2012 SUBJECTS Music -- Ethnomusicology Music -- Popular & Folk Performing Arts Area Studies -- Latin American & Caribbean Studies Ethnic Studies -- Black/African Diaspora Studies SERIES TITLE: Black Music Reference Series SERIES NUMBER: 3

REVIEWS
"Not only is Afro-Cuban Music an essential handbook for anyone researching or merely enjoying Afro-Cuban music; it is a testament to the traditional hard-copy bibliographic guide in an era where paper resources are increasingly eclipsed by digital ones." -- Latin American Music Review

"John Gray, master bibliographer of the Afro-Atlantic world has done it again. His powerful new work covers the subject in all its facets, all its glory. I wandered happily through this wondrous text, learning, learning, learning. Gray makes you aware of what an amazing cultural machine black Cuba is, from the habanera to orisha rap and back again. A landmark publication in Black Studies."
-- Robert Farris Thompson, Yale University, author of Aesthetic of the Cool: Afro-Atlantic Art and Music

"Afro-Cuban Music: A Bibliographic Guide is an impressive accomplishment that will prove an invaluable resource for researchers. It is well-organized and offers comprehensive coverage of the available literature, particularly periodical sources which would otherwise be difficult to find. Users will also appreciate the many annotations included for the details they provide on each work's contents."
-- Robin Moore, University of Texas at Austin, author of Nationalizing Blackness: Afrocubanismo and Artistic Revolution in Cuba, 1920-1940

DESCRIPTION
In spite of its relatively small size Cuba has had an inordinately large musical influence both inside the Caribbean and abroad. From the 'rhumba' (son) craze of the 1920s and '30s to mambo and cha-cha-cha in the 1950s and '60s and the Buena Vista Social Club phenomenon of the late '90s, Cuba has been central to popular music developments throughout the Caribbean, Latin America, the United States and Europe.

Unfortunately, no one has ever attempted to survey the extensive literature on the island's music, in particular the vernacular contributions of its Afro-Cuban population. This unprecedented bibliographic guide attempts to do just that. Ranging from the 19th century to early 2009 it offers almost 5000 entries on all of the island's main genre families, e.g. Cancion Cubana, Danzon, Son, Rumba, and Sacred Musics (Santeria, Palo, Abakua, and Arara), as well as such recent developments as timba, rap and regueton. It also provides sections on Afro-Cuban musical instruments, the music's influence abroad, and a biographical and critical component covering the lives and careers of more than 800 artists and ensembles. Spanish-language sources are covered comprehensively, in particular dozens of locally published journals such as Bohemia, Carteles, Revolucion y Cultura, Revista Salsa Cubana, and Tropicana Internacional, all indexed here for the first time, as well as the sizable international literature in English, French, and other European languages.

The work concludes with an extensive reference section offering lists of Sources Consulted, a guide to relevant Libraries and Archives, an appendix listing artists and ensembles by idiom/occupation, and two detailed Author and Subject Indexes.

TABLE OF CONTENTS: Acknowledgments Introduction I.    Cultural History and the Arts II.   Festivals and Carnival          General Works          Regional Studies III.  General Works          Non-Spanish Language Sources          Spanish Language Sources IV.  Musical Instruments V.   Genre Studies          Cancion Cubana (bolero, trova, etc.)          Carnival Music (comparsa; conga)          Charanga/Pachanga          Danzon (chachacha, danzon, etc.)          Filin/Feeling          Guaracha          Jazz/Latin Jazz          Mambo          Merengue          Mozambique          Pregones          Punto Guajiro          Rap          Reggae/Regueton          Rumba          Sacred Music (Abakua, Arara, Palo, Santeria)          Salsa          Son          Timba          Tonadas Trinitarias          Tumba Francesa VI.  Afro-Cuban Music Abroad          Canada          Chile          Colombia          Costa Rica          Curacao          Democratic Republic of Congo          Dominican Republic          Finland          France          Germany          Great Britain          Jamaica          Japan          Mexico          Netherlands, The          Peru          Puerto Rico          Senegal          Spain          United States VII. Biographical and Critical Studies Sources Consulted Libraries and Archives Appendix:  List of Individuals and Ensembles by Idiom/Occupation Author Index Subject Index

ABOUT THE AUTHOR
JOHN GRAY is director of the Black Arts Research Center in Nyack, New York. His previous publications include African Music (1991); Fire Music: A Bibliography of the New Jazz, 1959-1990 (1991); Blacks in Classical Music (1988); Blacks in Film and Television (1990); Black Theatre and Performance (1990); and, Ashe, Traditional Religion and Healing in Sub-Saharan Africa and the Diaspora (1989), all published by Greenwood Press.