• The music of Cuba, including its instruments, performance, and dance, comprises a large set of unique traditions influenced mostly by west African and...
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  • Music of African heritage in Cuba derives from the musical traditions of the many ethnic groups from different parts of West and Central Africa that were...
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  • Son cubano (redirect from Cuban Son)
    genre of music and dance that originated in the highlands of eastern Cuba during the late 19th century. It is a syncretic genre that blends elements of Spanish...
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    Cuba, officially the Republic of Cuba, is an island country, comprising the island of Cuba (largest island), Isla de la Juventud, and 4,195 islands, islets...
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    Cuba Mark Gooding Jr. (born January 2, 1968) is an American actor. After his breakthrough role as Tre Styles in Boyz n the Hood (1991), he won the Academy...
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    Afro-Cubans (Spanish: Afrocubano) or Black Cubans are Cubans of full or partial sub-Saharan African ancestry. The term Afro-Cuban can also refer to historical...
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    Amerindian influences. The music of Cuba, including the instruments and the dances, is mostly of European and African origin. Most forms of the present day are...
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  • Cuban folk music includes a variety of traditional folk music of Cuba, and has been influenced by the Spanish and the African culture as well as the remaining...
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    Cubans (Spanish: Cubanos) are the citizens and nationals of Cuba. The Cuban people have varied origins with the most spoken language being Spanish. The...
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  • traditional ensemble that plays Cuban dance music. They made Cuban dance music popular in the 1940s and their music consisted of heavily son-influenced material...
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    Brazilian and Cuban music. In Spanish, clave literally means key, clef, code, or keystone. It is present in a variety of genres such as Abakuá music, rumba,...
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    Many of these dance elements from European dance and religious dances were fused together to form the basis of la técnica cubana. Cuban music also contributed...
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  • ("don't be a peasant and ask her").[citation needed] Music of Cuba Punto guajiro Galán, Natalio: Cuba y sus sones, Pre-Textos, Artegraf S.A., Madrid, España...
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    economy of Cuba is a planned economy dominated by state-run enterprises. In the 1990s, the ruling Communist Party of Cuba encouraged the formation of worker...
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    Rumba is a secular genre of Cuban music involving dance, percussion, and song. It originated in the northern regions of Cuba, mainly in urban Havana and...
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  • Tresillo (rhythm) (category Music of Cuba)
    American music. It is a more basic form of the rhythmic figure known as the habanera. Tresillo is the most fundamental duple-pulse rhythmic cell in Cuban and...
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    Alejo Carpentier (category Ambassadors of Cuba to France)
    study of the music of Cuba, La música en Cuba and integrated musical themes and literary techniques throughout his works. He explored elements of Afro-Cubanism...
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    of Cuba (Spanish: Presidente de Cuba), officially the president of the Republic of Cuba (Spanish: Presidente de la República de Cuba), is the head of...
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    Cuba is an island nation in the Caribbean Sea. It comprises an archipelago of islands centred upon the geographic coordinates 21°3N, 80°00W. Cuba is the...
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  • Mambo is a genre of Cuban dance music pioneered by the charanga Arcaño y sus Maravillas in the late 1930s and later popularized in the big band style by...
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  • styles of music. Mozambique (pron.: mo.sam.'βi.ke) is a vigorous style of Cuban music and dance derived, like the conga, from music of Cuban street carnivals...
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    name Alex Cuba, is a Cuban-Canadian singer-songwriter who sings in Spanish and English. He has won two Juno Awards for World Music Album of the Year:...
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  • Cuban (born 1958), American entrepreneur Cuban Missile Crisis List of Cubans All pages with titles beginning with Cuban Cuban Boys, a British music act...
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    Celia Cruz (category Yoruba-language singers of Cuba)
    making her one of the best-selling Latin music artists. She began her career in her home country Cuba, earning recognition as a vocalist of the popular musical...
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  • The island of Cuba was inhabited by various Native American cultures prior to the arrival of the explorer Christopher Columbus in 1492. After his arrival...
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    Santiago de Cuba is the second-largest city in Cuba and the capital city of Santiago de Cuba Province. It lies in the southeastern area of the island,...
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    political ideologies. U.S. economic sanctions against Cuba are comprehensive and impact all sectors of the Cuban economy. It is the most enduring trade embargo...
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  • Hip hop music arrived in Cuba via radio and TV broadcasts from Miami. During the 1980s hip hop culture in Cuba was mainly centered on breakdancing. But...
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    characteristics of Cuba are known through census which have been conducted and analyzed by different bureaus since 1774. The National Office of Statistics of and...
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  • genre of song which originated in eastern Cuba in the late 19th century as part of the trova tradition. Unrelated to the older Spanish dance of the same...
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