Modern Cuban Music: The African Diaspora’s Transformative Role, 1800-1950

Harvard FAS

Understanding the music of Cuba requires learning about its social structures, complex immigration history and cultural heritage. Positioned on what is known as the key of the Gulf in the Caribbean, Cuba has embraced all of the musical traditions that arrived in the Antilles since the 1500s to the present day. This course will introduce the students to the musical legacy of six composers including Miguel Failde, Ernesto Lecuona, Sindo Garay, Arsenio Rodriguez Bebo Valdes and Enrique Jorrin.…