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Summary
Part 2 of a three-part documentary on the history and development of Afro-Cuban music in Cuba and the United States, profusely illustrated with footage of ritual, social, and theatrical music and dance, drawn from archival sources or filmed on location.
CONTENTS: Development of Afro-Cuban music in Cuba, its relationship to political events, and its discovery by American visitors such as Louis Moreau Gottschalk. Interviews with and/or performances by the Martí Sisters; guitarist Isaac Oviedo; Orestes López, who composed the first mambo; and Enrique Jorrín, composer of the first cha-cha-cha; and the Orquesta Anacaona, an all-female group of singers and musicians. The blending of jazz and Cuban music is traced, from its beginnings in the 1880s with W. C. Handy and its continuation in the 1920s with Louis Armstrong. Dances depicted include the rumba, mambo, and cha-cha-cha, as well as dance performances at the Tropicana nightclub in Havana and at a parade.
Call number
*MGZIDF 3218
Note
Presented by KCET-TV/Los Angeles. Producers/directors: Eugene Rosow and Howard Dratch. New York and Cuban music and dance sequences directed and photographed by Les Blank. Writer: Linda Post. Host: Harry Belafonte.
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Funding (note)
Preservation of this video was supported by a donation from Lynn Garafola.
Title
Routes of rhythm, part 2 [electronic resource]
Imprint
c1989.
Funding
Preservation of this video was supported by a donation from Lynn Garafola.
Restricted access
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