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Cuban Masters Series

Author : Jon Griffin
Publisher : Salsa Blanca Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1941837352
Total Pages : 54 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (418 download)

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Download or read book Cuban Masters Series written by Jon Griffin and published by Salsa Blanca Publishing. This book was released on 2012-01-06 with total page 54 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Learn to play the Cuban tres from a true master. In this book, you will learn about the Cuban tres and how to play it correctly. Your guide is Leonel "Guajiro" Gonzalez, who has played in many Cuban bands including Elito Reve and many sessions in studios around Havana. Leonel will open your eyes as to the possibilities of using the Cuban tres in, not just a traditional context, but also to play timba, danzon, mambo and other styles. This is an intermediate to advanced series, but even a beginner could learn from this, albeit slower. We suggest you have some familiarity with the Cuban tres, but arrangers and composers will get valuable insight into this instrument and also Cuban music in general. The book covers: Introduction Tuning Traditional Son Modern Tumbao Roots of the Cuban Tres Picking Styles Mambo Bolero Son Section of Cha-cha-chá Timba and Modern Son Montuno Examples Guaijra Clave Danzón Secret Weapon (Fretboard) Harmony and Chords Basic Tumbaos for Traditional Son Progressions Punto Guajiro Resources

The Cuban Bass

Author : Jon Griffin, Jr.
Publisher : Salsa Blanca Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9781941837580
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (375 download)

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Download or read book The Cuban Bass written by Jon Griffin, Jr. and published by Salsa Blanca Publishing. This book was released on 2022-12-15 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Cuban Masters Series: Piano

Author : Jon Griffin
Publisher : CreateSpace
ISBN 13 : 9781470095086
Total Pages : 52 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (95 download)

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Download or read book Cuban Masters Series: Piano written by Jon Griffin and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2012-02-01 with total page 52 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: At last, you can take a lesson from a Cuban piano master. Emilio Morales, along with musicologist Jon Griffin, will guide you through the full array of Cuban styles. From traditional Cha-cha-chá and bolero to son moderno and timba. This book will show you actual examples of Cuban music, not just a bunch of exercises to practice. Includes: Understanding Montuno Son Montuno Montuno Variations Cha-cha-chá Danzón Danzón Form Bolero Mambo Playing With the Bass Timba Changüi Modern Son Much More! About the authors Emilio Morales has been a fixture on the Cuban music scene. Not only as a studio musician, but as the pianist for Paulito FG, NG La Banda, and Team Cuba. He played on many pivotal recordings in Cuba including - Paulito FG El Bueno Soy Yo ("Paulito FG") and Sofocándote and with Juan Ceruto on Gracias Formell. Jon Griffin has went to the Grove School of Music and studied Jazz composing and arranging. He also has recorded with many of Cuba's top musicians like Richard Egües, Angel Bonne, Enrique Pla, Robertico Garcia and others. He also studied ethnomusicology with Olavo Alen Rodriguez at CIDMUC in Havana.

Salsa Piano

Author : Jon Griffin, Jr.
Publisher : Salsa Blanca Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9781941837368
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (373 download)

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Download or read book Salsa Piano written by Jon Griffin, Jr. and published by Salsa Blanca Publishing. This book was released on 2016-09-19 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Dreaming in Cuban

Author : Cristina García
Publisher : Ballantine Books
ISBN 13 : 0345381432
Total Pages : 274 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (453 download)

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Download or read book Dreaming in Cuban written by Cristina García and published by Ballantine Books. This book was released on 1993-02-10 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Impressive . . . [Cristina García’s] story is about three generations of Cuban women and their separate responses to the revolution. Her special feat is to tell it in a style as warm and gentle as the ‘sustaining aromas of vanilla and almond,’ as rhythmic as the music of Beny Moré.”—Time Cristina García’s acclaimed book is the haunting, bittersweet story of a family experiencing a country’s revolution and the revelations that follow. The lives of Celia del Pino and her husband, daughters, and grandchildren mirror the magical realism of Cuba itself, a landscape of beauty and poverty, idealism and corruption. Dreaming in Cuban is “a work that possesses both the intimacy of a Chekov story and the hallucinatory magic of a novel by Gabriel García Márquez” (The New York Times). In celebration of the twenty-fifth anniversary of the novel’s original publication, this edition features a new introduction by the author. Praise for Dreaming in Cuban “Remarkable . . . an intricate weaving of dramatic events with the supernatural and the cosmic . . . evocative and lush.”—San Francisco Chronicle “Captures the pain, the distance, the frustrations and the dreams of these family dramas with a vivid, poetic prose.”—The Washington Post “Brilliant . . . With tremendous skill, passion and humor, García just may have written the definitive story of Cuban exiles and some of those they left behind.”—The Denver Post

Cuba (Winner of the Pulitzer Prize)

Author : Ada Ferrer
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1501154575
Total Pages : 435 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (11 download)

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Download or read book Cuba (Winner of the Pulitzer Prize) written by Ada Ferrer and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2021-09-07 with total page 435 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE IN HISTORY WINNER OF THE LOS ANGELES TIMES BOOK PRIZE IN HISTORY “Full of…lively insights and lucid prose” (The Wall Street Journal) an epic, sweeping history of Cuba and its complex ties to the United States—from before the arrival of Columbus to the present day—written by one of the world’s leading historians of Cuba. In 1961, at the height of the Cold War, the United States severed diplomatic relations with Cuba, where a momentous revolution had taken power three years earlier. For more than half a century, the stand-off continued—through the tenure of ten American presidents and the fifty-year rule of Fidel Castro. His death in 2016, and the retirement of his brother and successor Raúl Castro in 2021, have spurred questions about the country’s future. Meanwhile, politics in Washington—Barack Obama’s opening to the island, Donald Trump’s reversal of that policy, and the election of Joe Biden—have made the relationship between the two nations a subject of debate once more. Now, award-winning historian Ada Ferrer delivers an “important” (The Guardian) and moving chronicle that demands a new reckoning with both the island’s past and its relationship with the United States. Spanning more than five centuries, Cuba: An American History provides us with a front-row seat as we witness the evolution of the modern nation, with its dramatic record of conquest and colonization, of slavery and freedom, of independence and revolutions made and unmade. Along the way, Ferrer explores the sometimes surprising, often troubled intimacy between the two countries, documenting not only the influence of the United States on Cuba but also the many ways the island has been a recurring presence in US affairs. This is a story that will give Americans unexpected insights into the history of their own nation and, in so doing, help them imagine a new relationship with Cuba; “readers will close [this] fascinating book with a sense of hope” (The Economist). Filled with rousing stories and characters, and drawing on more than thirty years of research in Cuba, Spain, and the United States—as well as the author’s own extensive travel to the island over the same period—this is a stunning and monumental account like no other.

Hostage in Havana

Author : Noel Hynd
Publisher : HarperChristian + ORM
ISBN 13 : 0310413222
Total Pages : 443 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (14 download)

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Download or read book Hostage in Havana written by Noel Hynd and published by HarperChristian + ORM. This book was released on 2011-07-05 with total page 443 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From bestselling ABA author Noel Hynd comes this new series set against the backdrop of Havana, an explosive capital city of faded charm locked in the past and torn by political intrigue. U.S. Treasury Agent Alexandra LaDuca leaves her Manhattan home on an illegal mission to Cuba that could cost her everything. Accompanying her is the attractive but dangerous Paul Guarneri, a Cuban-born exile who lives in the gray areas of the law. Together, they plunge into subterfuge and danger. Without the support of the United States, Alex must navigate Cuban police, saboteurs, pro-Castro security forces, and an assassin who follows her from New York. Bullets fly as allies become traitors and enemies become unexpected friends. Alex, recovering from the tragic loss of her fiancé a year before, reexamines faith and new love while taking readers on a fast-paced adventure. Readers of general market thrillers, such as John le Carré, David Baldacci, and Joel Rosenberg, will eagerly anticipate this first installment.

Handmade in Cuba

Author : Ruth Behar
Publisher : University Press of Florida
ISBN 13 : 168340288X
Total Pages : 346 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (834 download)

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Download or read book Handmade in Cuba written by Ruth Behar and published by University Press of Florida. This book was released on 2020-05-15 with total page 346 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Handmade in Cuba is an in-depth examination of Ediciones Vigía, an artisanal press that published exquisite books crafted from simple supplies during some of Cuba’s most dire economic periods. Vividly illustrated, this volume shows how the publishing collective responded to the nation’s changing historical and political situation from the margins of society, representing Cuban culture across the boundaries of race, age, gender, and genre. In this volume, poets and scholars reflect on the unique artistic direction of Rolando Estévez, who oversaw the creation of over 500 handmade books and magazines between 1985 and 2014. They highlight the beautiful designs and unusual materials selected, including fabric, metals, wood, feathers, and discarded items. Through diverse perspectives, including an interview with Estévez himself, the essays showcase the unlimited inventive possibilities of books as objects, as sculptural pieces, and as installations. Even in the age of technology, Estévez generated enormous excitement and admiration for these hand-crafted books, and this volume offers the first inside view of this important alternative publishing space. Contributors: Ruth Behar | Juanamaría Cordones-Cook | Gwendolyn Díaz | Erin Finzer | William Luis | Nancy Morejón | Kim Nochi | Carina Pino Santos | Kristin Schwain | Elzbieta Sklodowska

True Believer

Author : Scott Carmichael
Publisher : Naval Institute Press
ISBN 13 : 1612512534
Total Pages : 220 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (125 download)

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Download or read book True Believer written by Scott Carmichael and published by Naval Institute Press. This book was released on 2009-10-01 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ana Montes appeared to be a model employee of the Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA). Known to her coworkers as the Queen of Cuba, she was an overachiever who advanced quickly through the ranks of Latin American specialists to become the intelligence community's top analyst on Cuban affairs. But throughout her sixteen-year career at DIA, Montes was sending Castro some of America's most closely guarded secrets and at the same time helping influence what the United States thought it knew about Cuba. When she was finally arrested in September 2001, she became the most senior American intelligence official ever accused of operating as a Cuban spy from within the federal U.S. government. Unrepentant as she serves out her time in a federal prison in Texas, Montes remains the only member of the intelligence community ever convicted of espionage on behalf of the Cuban government. This inside account of the investigation that led to her arrest has been written by Scott W. Carmichael, the DIA's senior counterintelligence investigator who persuaded the FBI to launch an investigation. Although Montes did not fit the FBI's profile of a spy and easily managed to defeat the agency's polygraph exams, Carmichael became suspicious of her activities and with the FBI over a period of several years developed a solid case against her. Here he tells the story of that long and ultimately successful spy hunt. Carmichael reveals the details of their efforts to bring her to justice, offering readers a front-row seat for the first major U.S. espionage case of the twentieth century. She was arrested less than twenty-four hours before learning details of the U.S. plan to invade Afghanistan post-September 11. Motivated by ideology not money, Montes was one of the last "true believers" of the communist era. Because her arrest came just ten days after 9/11, it went largely unnoticed by the American public. This book calls attention to the grave damage Montes inflicted on U.S. security—Carmichael even implicates her in the death of a Green Beret fighting Cuban-backed insurgents in El Salvador—and the damage she would have continued to inflict had she not been caught.

Miami’s Forgotten Cubans

Author : Alan A. Aja
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1137570458
Total Pages : 265 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (375 download)

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Download or read book Miami’s Forgotten Cubans written by Alan A. Aja and published by Springer. This book was released on 2016-08-31 with total page 265 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores the reception experiences of post-1958 Afro-Cubans in South Florida in relation to their similarly situated “white” Cuban compatriots. Utilizing interviews, ethnographic observations, and applying Census data analyses, Aja begins not with the more socially diverse 1980 Mariel boatlift, but earlier, documenting that a small number of middle-class Afro-Cuban exiles defied predominant settlement patterns in the 1960 and 70s, attempting to immerse themselves in the newly formed but ultimately racially exclusive “ethnic enclave.” Confronting a local Miami Cuban “white wall” and anti-black Southern racism subsumed within an intra-group “success” myth that equally holds Cubans and other Latin Americans hail from “racial democracies,” black Cubans immigrants and their children, including subsequent waves of arrival and return-migrants, found themselves negotiating the boundaries of being both “black” and “Latino” in the United States.

Super Extra Grande

Author : Yoss
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1632060566
Total Pages : 160 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (32 download)

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Download or read book Super Extra Grande written by Yoss and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2016-06-07 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With playfulness and ingenuity in the tradition of Douglas Adams, the Cuban science fiction master Yoss delivers a space opera of intergalactic proportions withSuper Extra Grande, the winner of the 20th annual UPC Science Fiction Award in 2011.

Masters of War

Author : Clara Nieto
Publisher : Seven Stories Press
ISBN 13 : 1609800494
Total Pages : 628 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (98 download)

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Download or read book Masters of War written by Clara Nieto and published by Seven Stories Press. This book was released on 2011-01-04 with total page 628 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Masters of War, Clara Nieto adeptly presents the parallel histories of the countries of Latin America, histories that are intertwined, each reflecting the United States’ "coherent policy of intervention" set into motion by the Monroe Doctrine. As the value of this continued policy comes increasingly into question, Nieto argues for the need to evaluate the alarming precedent set in Latin America: the institution of client dictatorships, the roles played by the interests of U.S. corporations, the enormous tolls taken on civilian populations, and the irreversible disruption of regional stability. Drawing from an impressive array of documents and sources as well as from her unique first-hand insights as a participant in crucial meetings and negotiations in the region from the mid-1960s through the mid-1980s, Nieto chronicles the Cuban Revolution, the CIA-sponsored coup against popularly elected President Allende in Chile, the U.S. invasions of Panama and Grenada, U.S. support for the cultivation and training of paramilitary death squads in Nicaragua, El Salvador, and Colombia, as well as similarly severe but less well-known situations in other countries such as Uruguay, Venezuela, Argentina, Peru, Bolivia, Honduras, and Guatemala. Masters of War offers, from an informed perspective, perhaps for the first time, a distanced, objective analysis of recent Latin American history. Clara Nieto’s depth of knowledge and understanding is an invaluable resource at a time when the media is seen as unapologetically aligned with the interests of major corporations and policymakers, and the American public has reached a new height of apprehension regarding the intentions behind and consequences of its government’s policies.

Cuba, Hot and Cold

Author : Tom Miller
Publisher : University of Arizona Press
ISBN 13 : 0816535868
Total Pages : 129 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (165 download)

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Download or read book Cuba, Hot and Cold written by Tom Miller and published by University of Arizona Press. This book was released on 2017-10-10 with total page 129 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A collection of renowned travel writer Tom Miller's best musings on the history and culture of Cuba"--Provided by publisher.

The Most Beautiful Girl in Cuba

Author : Chanel Cleeton
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 0593098870
Total Pages : 385 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (93 download)

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Download or read book The Most Beautiful Girl in Cuba written by Chanel Cleeton and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2021 with total page 385 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "At the end of the nineteenth century, three revolutionary women fight for freedom in ... Chanel Cleeton's ... novel inspired by real-life events and the true story of a legendary Cuban woman--Evangelina Cisneros--who changed the course of history"--

Cuba and Its Music

Author : Ned Sublette
Publisher : Chicago Review Press
ISBN 13 : 1569764204
Total Pages : 690 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (697 download)

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Download or read book Cuba and Its Music written by Ned Sublette and published by Chicago Review Press. This book was released on 2007-02 with total page 690 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This entertaining history of Cuba and its music begins with the collision of Spain and Africa and continues through the era of Miguelito Valdes, Arsenio Rodriguez, Benny More, and Perez Prado. It offers a behind-the-scenes examination of music from a Cuban point of view, unearthing surprising, provocative connections and making the case that Cuba was fundamental to the evolution of music in the New World. The ways in which the music of black slaves transformed 16th-century Europe, how the "claves" appeared, and how Cuban music influenced ragtime, jazz, and rhythm and blues are revealed. Music lovers will follow this journey from Andalucia, the Congo, the Calabar, Dahomey, and Yorubaland via Cuba to Mexico, Puerto Rico, Saint-Domingue, New Orleans, New York, and Miami. The music is placed in a historical context that considers the complexities of the slave trade; Cuba's relationship to the United States; its revolutionary political traditions; the music of Santeria, Palo, Abakua, and Vodu; and much more.

The Structure of Cuban History

Author : Louis A. Pérez Jr.
Publisher : UNC Press Books
ISBN 13 : 1469608863
Total Pages : 353 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (696 download)

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Download or read book The Structure of Cuban History written by Louis A. Pérez Jr. and published by UNC Press Books. This book was released on 2013-09-16 with total page 353 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this expansive and contemplative history of Cuba, Louis A. Perez Jr. argues that the country's memory of the past served to transform its unfinished nineteenth-century liberation project into a twentieth-century revolutionary metaphysics. The ideal of national sovereignty that was anticipated as the outcome of Spain's defeat in 1898 was heavily compromised by the U.S. military intervention that immediately followed. To many Cubans it seemed almost as if the new nation had been overtaken by another country's history. Memory of thwarted independence and aggrievement--of the promise of sovereignty ever receding into the future--contributed to the development in the early republic of a political culture shaped by aspirations to fulfill the nineteenth-century promise of liberation, and it was central to the claim of the revolution of 1959 as the triumph of history. In this capstone book, Perez discerns in the Cuban past the promise that decisively shaped the character of Cuban nationality.

The Cuban Affair

Author : Nelson DeMille
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1501101722
Total Pages : 448 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (11 download)

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Download or read book The Cuban Affair written by Nelson DeMille and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2017-09-19 with total page 448 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mac has left his life of danger and adventure behind him. But when Carlos, a hotshot lawyer heavily involved with anti-Castro groups, approaches Mac for a ten-day fishing tournament in Cuba - to be accompanied by a covert mission and a sizable paycheck - Mac's interest is piqued. Mac understands that if he accepts this job, he'll either walk away rich - or not at all.