Cuban Fire: The Story of Salsa and Latin Jazz (Bayou Press) - Softcover

Leymarie, Isabelle

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0826465668 ISBN 13: 9780826465665

Publisher: Continuum Intl Pub Group, 2003

Synopsis

Prize-winning author Leymarie tells the thrilling saga of popular music of Cuban origin and its major artists from the 1920s to today. 71 photos.

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About the Author

Isabelle Leymarie, a pianist and musicologist, has been involved with jazz and Latin music for many years. She has taught at academic institutions.

From Library Journal

Cuba's unique blend of African, Spanish, and French cultures has produced an international musical legacy of unparalleled popularity. An award-winning author and a documentary filmmaker, Leymarie traces the history of Cuban music and its major artists from the 1920s to today with ardor and verve. Sections on musical roots, the 1940s and 1950s ("The golden age of Cuban music"), the 1970s to today, and more describe the development of distinct genres like the rumba, conga, and pachanga in Cuba, as well as in expatriate communities in the United States and Puerto Rico. Other recent excellent books on Cuban music include Sue Steward's ­Musica!: The Rhythm of Latin America; Salsa, Rumba, Merengue, and More, which is more of a coffee-table book (but with a good discography) and doesn't quite match Cuban Fire's scholarly, sequential style. Scott Yanow's Afro-Cuban Jazz is reasonably scholarly, but the scope is not as broad. Cuban Fire occupies the middle ground between those two otherwise terrific books and is the one to choose if you can't afford all three. Essential wherever books on popular music are collected.
Dave Valencia, King Cty. Lib. Syst., Seattle
Copyright 2002 Reed Business Information, Inc.

Edition details

• Publisher: Continuum Intl Pub Group
• Publication date: 2003
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0826465668
• ISBN 13: 9780826465665
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 400