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Record Nr.

UNINA9910821566203321

Autore

Ortiz Fernando <1881-1969, >

Titolo

Fernando Ortiz on music : selected writing on Afro-Cuban culture / / edited and with an introduction by Robin D. Moore

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania ; ; Rome, [Italy] ; ; Tokyo, [Japan] : , : Temple University Press, , 2018

©2018

ISBN

1-4399-1175-4

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (282 pages) : illustrations, tables

Collana

Studies in Latin America and Caribbean Music

Disciplina

780.97291

Soggetti

Music - Cuba - History and criticism

Black people - Cuba - Music - History and criticism

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Part I. Early writings -- The future of Cuban witchcraft -- Afro-Cuban cabildos -- Part II. Instrument essays -- Makuta -- Ararâa drums -- The Chekerâe, âAgbe, or Aggèuâe -- The conga -- Part III. Ethnographic essays -- Kongo traditions -- The religious music of black Cuban Yorubas -- The "tragedy" of the äNâaänigos -- Satirical and commercial song.