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Title: Rites of Rhythm : The Music of Cuba by Jory Farr ISBN: 0-06-009030-8 Publisher: Regan Books Pub. Date: 29 July, 2003 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $25.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.25 (4 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Entertaining and erudite!
Comment: Jorry Farr writes with panache and shares his deep knowledge about Cuban culture and music in this entertaining book. Anyone interested in understanding the evolution and synthesis of the various Cuban musical genres will find this to be an valuable addition to their library. The appendix also contains a comprehensive discography, including some rare works.
Rating: 2
Summary: Journalistic skimming of the surface
Comment: A quick and easy read, but a little flip and trying to be too hip. This book will ring hollow to most who have visited the island. I was pretty disappointed at encounters that pumped up to be more meaningful than they seem on paper. Comes off as journalistic tourism.
Rating: 5
Summary: A Cuban Musical Tour from a Human Perspective
Comment: In Rites of Rhythm, Jory Farr captures the relationship between Cuba's music and its reality--from the spiritual to the socio-economic and the political. His book is highly readable and informative. He openly shares his journey through the Cuban music world (both inside Cuba and beyond its borders), interviewing Cuban musicians about their art, their lives and their spiritual roots in Afrocuban music. He expresses the ecstatic side of the music in print, the suffering of the Cuban people, and the psychological effects of living in Cuba since the revolution. For anyone planning to travel to Cuba or wanting to understand its music, I highly recommend this book.
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Title: Faces of Salsa: A Spoken History of the Music by Leonardo Padura, Stephen J. Clark, Leonardo Padura Fuentes, Stephen John Clark ISBN: 1588340805 Publisher: Smithsonian Books Pub. Date: November, 2003 List Price(USD): $16.95 |
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Title: Cubano Be, Cubano Bop: One Hundred Years of Jazz in Cuba by Leonardo Acosta, Daniel S. Whitesell ISBN: 158834147X Publisher: Smithsonian Books Pub. Date: September, 2003 List Price(USD): $29.95 |
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Title: Cuban Music from A to Z by Helio Orovio ISBN: 0822332124 Publisher: Duke University Press Pub. Date: 01 March, 2004 List Price(USD): $24.95 |
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Title: The Latin Beat: The Rhythms and Roots of Latin Music, from Bossa Nova to Salsa and Beyond by Ed Morales ISBN: 0306810182 Publisher: DaCapo Press Pub. Date: 21 October, 2003 List Price(USD): $18.95 |
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Title: Cuba and Its Music: From the First Drums to the Mambo by Ned Sublette ISBN: 1556525168 Publisher: Chicago Review Press Pub. Date: May, 2004 List Price(USD): $36.00 |
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