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The route from the land of the dead to San Andrés Mixquic, a little town just outside Mexico City, is lined with marigolds. Angel Jiménez del Aguila, who died in 2010, need only follow the trail of ...
VERACRUZ, Mexico - Coconut trees sway side-to-side in the main square as if to cheer on the dancers. On cue, hundreds of veracruzanos line up like a cavalry regiment in front of the 18th-century ...
The Cuban rhythmic roots of percussionist Roberto Juan Rodriguez’s, El Danzon De Moises (Tzadik), are not in Afro-Cuban bongo/conga stylings. They lie instead in the statelier Euro-Cuban danzon and ...
Youthful Cuban Orquesta Failde speaks to Billboard about a Latin Grammy nomination for a danzón album. By Judy Cantor-Navas Orquesta Failde has become known in Cuba for performing danzón, the rhythm ...
MATANZAS, Cuba (AP) — A man in a white guayabera approaches a woman and stretches out his hand, palm up, inviting her to dance. She stands up and waves her fan. On the dance floor, they get closer. As ...
You can take the girl out of Cuba, but you can't take Cuba out of the girl. Pianist Marialy Pacheco left her homeland for Germany in 2004, and after a few years in Australia, settled once again in ...
https://doi.org/10.5406/ethnomusicology.58.2.0222 • https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.5406/ethnomusicology.58.2.0222 Copy URL Amateur scholars, such as aficionados ...
Although throughout the entire world the voice of artists seems to have been silenced by the pandemic, in Cuba one musician has never slowed down: Ethiel Failde, director of the Orquesta Failde, great ...