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Author Ortiz, Fernando, 1881-1969, author.

Title Fernando Ortiz on music : selected writing on Afro-Cuban culture / edited and with an Introduction by Robin D. Moore
Published Philadelphia, Pennsylvania : Temple University Press, 2018
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Description 1 online resource (ix, 282 pages)
Series Studies in Latin American and Caribbean music
Studies in Latin American and Caribbean music.
Contents Part I. Early writings -- The future of Cuban witchcraft -- Afro-Cuban cabildos -- Part II. Instrument essays -- Makuta -- Arará drums -- The Chekeré, Ágbe, or Aggüé -- The conga -- Part III. Ethnographic essays -- Kongo traditions -- The religious music of black Cuban Yorubas -- The "tragedy" of the Ñáñigos -- Satirical and commercial song
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on February 13, 2018)
Subject Music -- Cuba -- History and criticism
Black people -- Cuba -- Music -- History and criticism
MUSIC -- Genres & Styles -- Classical.
MUSIC -- Reference.
Black people -- Music
Music
Cuba
Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Form Electronic book
Author Moore, Robin D., 1964- editor.
LC no. 2017052171
ISBN 9781439911754
1439911754
1439911738
9781439911730