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Afro (genre)
Afro is a genre of Cuban popular music with African themes which gained prominence during the afrocubanismo movement in the early 20th century.
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Afro-Cuban
The term Afro-Cuban refers to Cubans who mostly have West African ancestry, and to historical or cultural elements in Cuba thought to emanate from this community.
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American Mafia
The American Mafia (commonly referred to as the Mafia or the Mob, though "the Mob" can refer to other organized crime groups) or Italian-American Mafia, is the highly organized Italian-American criminal society.
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Arsenio Rodríguez
Arsenio Rodríguez (born Ignacio Arsenio Travieso Scull; 31 August 1911 – 30 December 1970)Giro, Radamés 2007.
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Bandola
The bandola is one of many varieties of small pear-shape chordophones found in Venezuela and Colombia.
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Bandurria
The bandurria is a plucked chordophone from Spain, similar to the mandolin, primarily used in Spanish folk music, but also found in former Spanish colonies.
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Bantu peoples
The Bantu peoples are the speakers of Bantu languages, comprising several hundred ethnic groups in sub-Saharan Africa, spread over a vast area from Central Africa across the African Great Lakes to Southern Africa.
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Baracoa
Baracoa is a municipality and city in Guantánamo Province near the eastern tip of Cuba.
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Bayamo
Bayamo is the capital city of the Granma Province of Cuba and one of the largest cities in the Oriente region.
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Benny Moré
Bartolomé Maximiliano Moré (24 August 1919 – 19 February 1963), known as Benny Moré, was a Cuban singer, bandleader and songwriter.
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Bolero
Bolero is a genre of slow-tempo Latin music and its associated dance.
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Bongo drum
Bongos (Spanish: bongó) are an Afro-Cuban percussion instrument consisting of a pair of small open bottomed drums of different sizes.
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Botija
The botija (botijuela; bunga) is a Caribbean musical instrument of the aerophone type.
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Buena Vista Social Club
Buena Vista Social Club is an ensemble of Cuban musicians established in 1996 to revive the music of pre-revolutionary Cuba.
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Call and response
Call and response is a form of interaction between a speaker and an audience in which the speaker's statements ("calls") are punctuated by responses from the listeners.
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Cha-cha-chá (music)
Cha-cha-chá is a genre of Cuban music.
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Changüí
Changüí is a style of Cuban music which originated in the early 19th century in the eastern region of Guantánamo Province, specifically Baracoa.
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Charanga (Cuba)
Charanga is a traditional ensemble that plays Cuban dance music.
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Classical guitar
The classical guitar (also known as concert guitar, classical acoustic, nylon-string guitar, or Spanish guitar) is the member of the guitar family used in classical music.
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Clave (rhythm)
The clave is a rhythmic pattern used as a tool for temporal organization in Afro-Cuban music.
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Claves
Claves are a percussion instrument (idiophone), consisting of a pair of short (about, thick dowels. Traditionally they are made of wood, typically rosewood, ebony or grenadilla. In modern times they are also made of fibreglass or plastics. When struck they produce a bright clicking noise. Claves are sometimes hollow and carved in the middle to amplify the sound.
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Conga
The conga, also known as tumbadora, is a tall, narrow, single-headed drum from Cuba.
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Congolese rumba
Congolese rumba, also known as Rumba Lingala, is a popular genre of dance music that originated in the Congo basin during the 1940s, with strong similarities to Cuban son.
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Cuba
Cuba, officially the Republic of Cuba, is a country comprising the island of Cuba as well as Isla de la Juventud and several minor archipelagos.
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Cuban Revolution
The Cuban Revolution (Revolución cubana) was an armed revolt conducted by Fidel Castro's revolutionary 26th of July Movement and its allies against the authoritarian government of Cuban President Fulgencio Batista.
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Cuban rumba
Rumba is a secular genre of Cuban music involving dance, percussion, and song.
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Dance in Cuba
Cuban culture encompasses a wide range of dance forms.
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Danzón
Danzón is the official musical genre and dance of Cuba.
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Descarga
A descarga (literally discharge in Spanish) is an improvised jam session consisting of variations on Cuban music themes, primarily son montuno, but also guajira, bolero, guaracha and rumba.
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Don Azpiazú
Justo Ángel Azpiazú (Cienfuegos, 11 February 1893 – Havana, 20 January 1943), better known as Don Azpiazú, was a leading Cuban orchestral director in the 1920s and 1930s.
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Double bass
The double bass, or simply the bass (and numerous other names), is the largest and lowest-pitched bowed string instrument in the modern symphony orchestra.
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Early Cuban bands
Early Cuban bands played popular music for dances and theatres during the period 1780–1930.
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Ewe people
The Ewe people (Eʋeawó, lit. "Ewe people"; or Mono Kple Volta Tɔ́sisiwo Dome, lit. "Ewe nation","Eʋenyigba" Eweland) are an African ethnic group.
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Fernando Ortiz Fernández
Fernando Ortiz Fernández (Havana, 16 July 1881 – 10 April 1969) was a Cuban essayist, anthropologist, ethnomusicologist and scholar of Afro-Cuban culture.
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Güiro
The güiro is a Latin American percussion instrument consisting of an open-ended, hollow gourd with parallel notches cut in one side.
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Gerardo Machado
Gerardo Machado y Morales (28 September 1871 – 29 March 1939) was a general of the Cuban War of Independence and President of Cuba from 1925 to 1933.
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Guajeo
A guajeo (Anglicized pronunciation: wa-hey-yo) is a typical Cuban ostinato melody, most often consisting of arpeggiated chords in syncopated patterns.
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Guajira (music)
The Guajira is a music genre derived from the Punto cubano.
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Guantánamo
Guantánamo is a municipality and city in southeast Cuba and capital of Guantánamo Province.
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Guaracha
The guaracha is a genre of Cuban popular music, of rapid tempo and comic or picaresque lyrics.
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Havana
Havana (Spanish: La Habana) is the capital city, largest city, province, major port, and leading commercial center of Cuba.
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Human voice
The human voice consists of sound made by a human being using the vocal tract, such as talking, singing, laughing, crying, screaming, etc.
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Ignacio Piñeiro
Ignacio Piñeiro Martínez (May 21, 1888 – March 12, 1969) was a Cuban musician, bandleader and composer whose career started in rumba and flowered in the rise of the son.
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Isla de la Juventud
Isla de la Juventud (Isle of Youth) is the second-largest Cuban island and the seventh-largest island in the West Indies (after Cuba itself, Hispaniola, Jamaica, Puerto Rico, Trinidad, and Andros Island).
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Jazz
Jazz is a music genre that originated in the African-American communities of New Orleans, United States, in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, and developed from roots in blues and ragtime.
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La Sonora Ponceña
La Sonora Ponceña is a Puerto Rican salsa band, founded in 1954 by Enrique "Quique" Lucca Caraballo.
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Latin
Latin (Latin: lingua latīna) is a classical language belonging to the Italic branch of the Indo-European languages.
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Latin music
Latin music (Portuguese and música latina) is a genre that is used by the music industry as a catch-all term for any music that comes from Spanish- and Portuguese-speaking areas of the world, namely Latin America, Spain, and Portugal, as well as music sung in either language.
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Majagua, Cuba
Majagua is a municipality and town in the Ciego de Ávila Province of Cuba.
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Mambo (music)
Mambo is a musical genre and dance style that developed originally in Cuba.
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Manzanillo, Cuba
Manzanillo is a municipality and city in the Granma Province of Cuba.
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Maraca
Maraca, sometimes called rumba shaker, shac-shac, and various other names, is a rattle which appears in many genres of Caribbean and Latin music.
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Marímbula
The marímbula is a plucked box musical instrument of the Caribbean.
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Matanzas
Matanzas is the capital of the Cuban province of Matanzas.
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Metre (poetry)
In poetry, metre is the basic rhythmic structure of a verse or lines in verse.
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Montuno
Montuno has several meanings pertaining to Cuban music and its derivatives.
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Music of Cuba
The music of Cuba, including its instruments, performance and dance, comprises a large set of unique traditions influenced mostly by west African and European (especially Spanish) music.
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New York City
The City of New York, often called New York City (NYC) or simply New York, is the most populous city in the United States.
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Oriente Province
Oriente (Spanish for "East" or "Orient") was one of six provinces of Cuba until 1976.
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Ostinato
In music, an ostinato (derived from Italian: stubborn, compare English, from Latin: 'obstinate') is a motif or phrase that persistently repeats in the same musical voice, frequently at the same pitch.
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Piano
The piano is an acoustic, stringed musical instrument invented in Italy by Bartolomeo Cristofori around the year 1700 (the exact year is uncertain), in which the strings are struck by hammers.
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Pinar del Río
Pinar del Río is a Cuban city, capital of Pinar del Río Province.
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Prohibition
Prohibition is the illegality of the manufacturing, storage in barrels or bottles, transportation, sale, possession, and consumption of alcohol including alcoholic beverages, or a period of time during which such illegality was enforced.
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Prostitution in Cuba
Prostitution in Cuba has always been a legal profession, though it has periodically been regulated or repressed.
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Puerto Ricans
Puerto Ricans (Puertorriqueños; or boricuas) are people from Puerto Rico, the inhabitants and citizens of Puerto Rico, and their descendants.
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Rhumba
Rhumba, also known as ballroom rumba, is a genre of ballroom music and dance that appeared in the East Coast of the United States during the 1930s.
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Rita Montaner
Rita Aurelia Fulcida Montaner y Facenda (20 August 1900 – 17 April 1958), known as Rita Montaner, was a Cuban singer, pianist and actress.
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Salsa music
Salsa music is a popular dance music that initially arose in New York City during the 1960s.
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Santiago de Cuba
Santiago de Cuba is the second-largest city of Cuba and the capital city of Santiago de Cuba Province.
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Septeto Nacional
Septeto Nacional (National Septet), or the Septeto Nacional de Ignacio Piñeiro, is a group credited with expanding the Son musical style before Arsenio Rodríguez.
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Sextet
A sextet (or hexad) is a formation containing exactly six members.
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Sierra Maestra
Sierra Maestra is a mountain range that runs westward across the south of the old Oriente Province in southeast Cuba, rising abruptly from the coast.
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Son mexicano
Son mexicano is a category of Mexican folk music and dance that encompasses various regional genres, all of which are called son.
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Son montuno
The son montuno is a subgenre of son cubano.
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Songo music
Songo is a genre of popular Cuban music, created by the group Los Van Van in the early 1970s.
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Sonora Matancera
La Sonora Matancera is a Cuban/Afro-Cuban band that played Latin American urban popular dance music.
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Soviet Union
The Soviet Union, officially the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR) was a socialist state in Eurasia that existed from 1922 to 1991.
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Spanish language
Spanish or Castilian, is a Western Romance language that originated in the Castile region of Spain and today has hundreds of millions of native speakers in Latin America and Spain.
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The Peanut Vendor
"El manisero", known in English as "The Peanut Vendor", is a Cuban son-pregón composed by Moisés Simons.
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Timba
Timba is a Cuban genre of music based on popular Cuban music along with salsa, American funk/R&B, and the strong influence of Afro-Cuban folkloric music.
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Tiple
A tiple (English pronunciation: /ˈtipəl/ or /tiplē/; Spanish pronunciation: \ˈtē(ˌ)plā\, literally treble or soprano) is a plucked-string chordophone of the guitar family.
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Tres (instrument)
The tres (Spanish for three) is a guitar-like three-course chordophone of Cuban origin.
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Trova
Trova is one of the great roots of the Cuban musical tree.
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Trumpet
A trumpet is a brass instrument commonly used in classical and jazz ensembles.
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Yoruba people
The Yoruba people (name spelled also: Ioruba or Joruba;, lit. 'Yoruba lineage'; also known as Àwon omo Yorùbá, lit. 'Children of Yoruba', or simply as the Yoruba) are an ethnic group of southwestern and north-central Nigeria, as well as southern and central Benin.
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