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Afro-Cuban Afro-Latin Latin
Afro-Cuban Afro-Latin Latin
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- A brief description of Cuban music forms, with featured artists and RealAudio samples, courtesy of Mamborama.com.
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- Covers the African and Afro-Cuban tradition of sacred drum playing, the tumbadora, has a list of bata players, timbaleros, and bongoseros and a glossary of terms.
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- Information on Afro-Cuban drumming styles and rhythms including Rumba, Abaqua, Arara, Bantu and Bembe. This site also includes an extensive list of links to other sites and a book list.
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- Profiles and schedules of artists worldwide, record labels and agencies, radio stations, and links.
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- With strong roots in West African Yoruba religious music, Cuba's highly syncopated, potent, percussion-rich music has spawned much of what is today's salsa and Latin jazz and greatly influenced musics all over the world. This site has both reviews and sou
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- A brief history of bongo drumming linked to the early Cuban music styles of Changüi and Son.
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- An explanation of drum patterns from the rhythms of a secret men's society in Cuba, brought there during the slave trade from the Calabar region of West Africa.
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- An explanation of the essential role of clave in Afro-Cuban music.
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- This paper by drummer Chuck Silverman, sheds some light on Timba, and on the possible outcomes of the music industry's effects on Cuban music and society.
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- Humboldt State University Office of Extended Education presents the 6th annual Explorations in Afro-Cuban Dance and Drum workshop to celebrate the folkloric music, songs, and dances of the Afro-Cuban people.
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