Timba: The Sound of the Cuban Crisis
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Afro-Cuban Culture
Afro-Cuban Music
Afro-Cuban music studies
Author_Vincenzo Perna
black diaspora culture
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Buena Vista
Buena Vista Social Club
Buena Vista Social Club Album
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charanga
Chopin
contemporary Cuban music analysis
Cuban Culture
Cuban Dance Music
Cuban Music
Cuban Popular Music
Cuban Rap
Cuban Society
dance
Dance Music
Dolce Vita
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ethnomusicology research
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Juan Formell
La Bruja
La Charanga
La Charanga Habanera
La Tropical
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Los Van Van
music
Political Music
popular
Popular Music
post-revolutionary Cuba
race and gender in music
Rumba Clave
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Timba Bands
urban youth subcultures
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Van Van
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Product details
- ISBN 9780754639411
- Weight: 703g
- Dimensions: 156 x 234mm
- Publication Date: 18 Apr 2005
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Hardback
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Cuban music is recognized unanimously as a major historical force behind Latin American popular music, and as an important player in the development of US popular music and jazz. However, the music produced on the island after the Revolution in 1959 has been largely overlooked and overshadowed by the Buena Vista Social Club phenomenon. The Revolution created the conditions for the birth of a type of highly sophisticated popular music, which has grown relatively free from market pressures. These conditions premised the new importance attained by Afro-Cuban dance music during the 1990s, when the island entered a period of deep economic and social crisis that has shaken Revolutionary institutions from their foundations. Vincenzo Perna investigates the role of black popular music in post-Revolutionary Cuba, and in the 1990s in particular. The emergence of timba is analysed as a distinctively new style of Afro-Cuban dance music. The controversial role of Afro-Cuban working class culture is highlighted, showing how this has resisted co-optation into a unified, pacified vision of national culture, and built musical bridges with the transnational black diaspora. Musically, timba represents an innovative fusion of previous popular and folkloric Afro-Cuban styles with elements of hip-hop and other African-American styles like jazz, funk and salsa. Timba articulates a black urban youth subculture with distinctive visual and choreographic codes. With its abrasive commentaries on issues such as race, consumer culture, tourism, prostitution and its connections to the underworld, timba demonstrates at the 'street level' many of the contradictions of contemporary Cuban society. After repeatedly colliding with official discourses, timba has eventually met with institutional repression. This book will appeal not only to ethnomusicologists and those working on popular music studies, but also to those working in the areas of cultural and Black studies, anthropology, Latin American studies, Cuban studies and Caribbean studies.
Vincenzo Perna gained his PhD in ethnomusicology from SOAS, University of London, and has been the secretary of the Italian branch of IASPM. He has contributed articles on popular and world music for Italian and British music magazines, written essays for Italian and international encyclopaedias, and lectured at Italian universities and conservatories. He currently works as a freelance music journalist.
