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Cuban Music from A to Z
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Cuban Music from A to Z
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Cuban Music from A to Z
Helio Orovio
Duke University Press
Durham
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© Tumi (Music) Ltd., Bath, U.K. First English-language edition published in the United States by Duke University Press and in the United Kingdom by Tumi (Music) Ltd., All rights reserved Printed in the United States of America on acid-free paper Designed by Mary Mendell Typeset in Quadraat by Tseng Information Systems, Inc. Library of Congress Catalogingin-Publication Data appear on the last printed page of this book.
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Consulting editor, Mo Fini. Translated from the Spanish by Ricardo Bardo Portilla and Lucy Davies and revised by Sue Steward. Illustrations by
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Celia ( TV series)
Colombian telenova
This article is about the Spanish-language telenovela. For TV series of Spain, see Celia (Spanish TV series).
Celia is a Spanish-language telenovela produced by Fox Telecolombia for RCN Televisión and Telemundo[1] which is based on the life of Cuban singer Celia Cruz.[1][4][5] The telenovela's theme "La Negra Tiene Tumbao" received an award for Television Theme Song of the Year, at the American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers Awards.[6]
Plot
[edit]Celia tells the story of one of the legends of Latin music and her major international career: Celia Cruz. We know the beginnings of her passion for singing in Cuba starting in ,[7] and her recognition as the most decisive singer of La Sonora Matancera. Leaving Cuba with her future husband Pedro Knight, a trumpeter with La Sonora Matancera, the series follows her departure from Cuba to Mexico soon after the Castro r
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Women in Latin music
Women have made significant contributions to Latin music, a genre which predates Italian explorer Christopher Columbus' arrival in Latin amerika in and the Spanish colonization of the Americas. The earliest musicians were Native Americans, hundreds of ethnic groups across the continent, whose lyrics "reflect conflict, beauty, pain, and loss that mark all human experience." Indigenous communities reserved music for women, who were given lika opportunities with men to teach, perform, sing, and dance. Ethnomusicologists have measured ceramic, animal-bone, and cane flutes from the Inca Empire which indicate a preference for women with a high vocal range. Women had equal social status, were trained, and received the same opportunities in music as dock in indigenous communities until the ankomst of Columbus in the late 15th century. europeisk settlers brought patriarchal, machismo ideologies to the continent, replacing the idea of equality between men and women.