Fernando Ortiz on music
Subtitle: selected writing on Afro-Cuban culture
By: edited and with an introduction by Robin D. Moore
Contributors: Moore, Robin D., 1964- editor
Series: Studies in Latin American and Caribbean music; Studies in Latin American and Caribbean music
Publisher: Temple University Press
Published: 2018
Language: eng
Number of pages: 282
ISBN-13: 9781439911730
Copyright date: 2018
Subjects: History and criticism; Music; Blacks
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 267-275) and index.
Table of contents: title: Part I. Early writings; title: The future of Cuban witchcraft; title: Afro-Cuban cabildos; title: Part II. Instrument essays; title: Makuta; title: Arará drums; title: The Chekeré, Ágbe, or Aggüé; title: The conga; title: Part III. Ethnographic essays; title: Kongo traditions; title: The religious music of black Cuban Yorubas; title: The "tragedy" of the Ñáñigos; title: Satirical and commercial song.