Afro-Cuban Music

African Cuban music African music has had a great influence on Cuban culture through slave trade since the early 1550s. In the 1400's, thousands of slaves were taken to Spain and eventually moved to Cuba. These "Latino" are accustomed to Spanish culture and languages, so they can even escape from slavery across the Cuban border. As a result, Cuban slave owners brought more slaves directly from Africa. In 1526, slaves were permitted to buy freedom at the age of kings, and the exchange between Cubans and Africans and racial mixing increased.

Generally, when people think or talk about Cuban music, they are mainly referring to music, often referred to as African Cuban music. Cuban music has a strong African element, but there is a fundamental difference between the two. Cuban music has a strong melody element from the Spanish roots. Traditional European music, a combination of flamenco and yoruba drums makes Cuban music worldwide power. When the Spaniard arrived in Kubanakan, when indigenous people called the island, they discovered that Tawanus, Guanaatave and Siboney, who migrated from the Orinoco area of ​​today's Colombia and Venezuela, lived. . These people arrived on the island around the year 900 and was founded on the island. Taino was living agriculture, where he spent a few days hunting and gathering

Timba is a music genre of Cuba, sometimes called Salsa Cuba (Cusar Salsa). However, the historical development of Timba is completely independent of the development of the United States and Puerto Rico, and because of the Cuban embargo and the strong Cuban African heritage, music has its own trademark side. The word "timba" is a part of a large group of "words" and "words" entering Spanish from African languages. Hundreds of other examples also include tomba, rumba, marimba, calimba, mambo, conga, charanga, bongo which are invented each year. Back in at least 1943, the word Timba is used for lyrics and songs like Casino de la Playa's Timba timbero and Perez Prado's Timba timba. It is also the name of the community of Havana.

In the field of contemporary Cuban music and Latin jazz, Cuba has a worldwide impact on the recent international renaissance and has made an advanced piano including Ruben Gonzalez, Ibrahim Ferrar, Area Ochoa, Oma Raportort, and a pianist I brought it. Home ChuchoValdé. In a sense, this was done through Ry Cooder's work of production and promotion and the movie The Buena Vista Social Club by Wim Wenders, raising 7 derived albums and more than $ 7 million in sales worldwide (Sweeney 2001 , P. 284). ) Although the success of the project is based on its strong music quality, long-term acceptance has benefited, to some extent, from his own announcement of the "Human Revitalization Project" (White 2000).

Multinational politics of Cuban music and Cuban culture R. James Ferguson Bond University, james_ferguson @ bond.edu.au