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2 - Race and Transculturation

Cuban Son

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  17 September 2022

By
Robin Moore
Edited by
Nanette de Jong
Nanette de Jong
Affiliation:
University of Newcastle
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Summary

The premise of this chapter is that an examination of the Cuban son provides important insights into Cuban history and society, into Caribbean race relations, and ongoing processes of cultural fusion involving Afro-descendant and Euro-descendant practices, among others. The chapter focuses primarily on early son history, its antecedent forms, the African-influenced aesthetic sense that gave rise to it, and the popularization of the music and dance in the early twentieth century. Later it briefly considers changes to son music in the 1930s and beyond.

Keywords

CubaSonRaceTransculturationRumba
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The Cambridge Companion to Caribbean Music , pp. 18 - 35
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2022

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