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Afro-Cuban

Nolan Warden

Nolan Warden

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Encyclopedia of Latin American Popular Music

ABC-CLIO, LLC, 2013

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...Afro-Cuban is a noun or adjective used to signify Cuban people or cultural practices of African descent in general, as well as a term that broadly describes popular Cuban music. In Spanish, it is usually not hyphenated (Afrocubano).The term...

Afro-mandinga in Lisbon: Griots and the (en)chantment of the past

Carolina Carret Höfs

Carolina Carret Höfs

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Transglobal Sounds : Music, Youth and Migration

Bloomsbury Academic, 2016

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...Introduction In the last decades, the migration of Mandingo musicians from Guinea-Bissau to Lisbon has brought complexity to the local artistic scene. Having two primary performance circuits – them being the local Guinean community...

Afro

George Torres

George Torres, PhD, is associate professor of music at Lafayette College, Easton, PA, where he teaches courses in music history and literature. Author affiliation details are correct at time of print publication.

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Encyclopedia of Latin American Popular Music

ABC-CLIO, LLC, 2013

Scholarly Books

...A genre of Cuban popular song with lyrics often featuring black themes, Afro originated in the late 19th century and came out of the tradition of Cuban blackface theater. It reached its height in popularity in the 1940s and 1950s, when...

Afro

Luis Ferreira

Luis Ferreira

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Bloomsbury Encyclopedia of Popular Music of the World Volume IX : Genres: Caribbean and Latin America

Bloomsbury Academic, 2014

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...Afro is a genre found in the repertoire of Afro-Uruguayan Carnival associations. Like candombe and milongón, which these associations (‘comparsas’) present in popular theaters, afro is played by a group of the best drummers...