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Showing 1 to 10 of 10 for “"Afro-Cuban"”.
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Afro-Cuban and Latin Jazz Compositions
… challenges include writing music with different Afro-Cuban rhythms as well as the use of the clave as a backbeat to the melodic ideas. Also, it explores different harmonic and melodic approaches used in a composition and stylistic ideas reflected in jazz styles. For each piece, the composer makes …
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From Cuba to Ybor City: Race, Revolution, Nationalism and Afro-Cuban Identity
… research project explores race, nationalism, and Afro-Cuban identity in the small Florida ethnic enclave of Ybor City in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century. It also examines slavery, race, and revolution in nineteenth-century Cuba. The study reveals how Cuban ethnicity and patriotic …
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Breaking Sound Barriers: Reading the Jazz Novel as a Model for More Flexible Social Interaction in a Globalized World
… Ellison incorporates the transnational fusion of Afro-Cuban jazz both thematically and structurally in his landmark novel Invisible Man. By integrating the Cuban rhythms of the rumba beneath the jazz aesthetic in the text, Ellison formally mirrors Afro-Cuban jazz, precipitating later transnational …
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Breaking Sound Barriers: Reading the Jazz Novel as a Model for More Flexible Social Interaction in a Globalized World
… Ellison incorporates the transnational fusion of Afro-Cuban jazz both thematically and structurally in his landmark novel Invisible Man. By integrating the Cuban rhythms of the rumba beneath the jazz aesthetic in the text, Ellison formally mirrors Afro-Cuban jazz, precipitating later transnational …
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Beyond the Threshold: Allusions to the Òrìsà in Ana Mendieta's Silueta Series
The Cuban-born artist Ana Mendieta (1948-1985) created the Silueta Series during the 1970s and ‘80s. It consists of earth-body works in situ featuring the silhouette of the artist's body fashioned from mud, plants, rocks, gunpowder and other materials. Underlying the creation of the Silueta Series …
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Queer performance and activism in Cuba: strategies for resisting exclusionary dynamics in feminist spaces
… and racism. This question is grounded in the Cuban context and uses the work of Krudxs Cubensi as a point of departure, arguing that members Odaymar Cuesta and Oliver Prendes challenge exclusions within feminisms with their ‘fierce feminist hip hop and Afro-Cuban flavours’ (Krudas Cubensi, …
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Cuban Artist, Leo Brouwer, and his solo guitar works: Pieza Sin Titulo To Elogio de la Danza. A contextual-analytical study.
… investigates wide-ranging issues central to the Cuban artist, Leo Brouwer (b. 1939). Although considered by some scholars as perhaps the most significant living composer for the guitar in the twentieth century, Brouwer has not achieved the wide acclaim he deserves. This stems mainly from the …
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Playing code: Interacting with computers through rhythm
… established highly evolved rhythmic artforms of Afro-Cuban and flamenco music, as well as deconstructing data communication signals and developing experimental computer interfaces, I immersed myself in a series of environments in which rhythmic codes were embodied and transmitted through sound. I …
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Cali Pachanguero: A Social History of Salsa in a Colombian City
… Salsa is a transnational style based on Afro-Cuban forms and elaborated by Puerto Ricans in New York City during the 1960s and 70s. The adoption and resignification of this style in Cali sheds light on its diffusion to other Latin American cities, where it has also played an important …
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Women drummers, forbidden drums: Obiní Batá negotiates a taboo
Boston University. University Professors Program Senior theses.