Cuba and Its Music
Subtitle: From the First Drums to the Mambo
Edition: New Ed edition
Publisher: Chicago Review Press
Published: February 1, 2007
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 688
ISBN-13: 9781556526329
Subjects: Music; Music (General); Music/Songbooks; Cuba; Caribbean & West Indies - Cuba; Ethnic; History & Criticism - General; Music / History & Criticism
First sentence: Separated from Europe by the Pyrenees on the northeast and from North Africa by the narrow Strait of Gibraltar to the south-through each of which gateways it has been invaded various times-the Iberian peninsula's physical isolation created its identity.