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As today’s Broadway goes, “Buena Vista” is a modestly scaled show that concentrates on celebrating the musical artistry of performers and, despite the improvisational nature of ...
a music club at its peak in the 1940s and early 1950s and once the go-to, pre-Revolutionary place for hot dance styles like son Cubano, bolero and the venerable social form known as danzón ...
Forget reggaeton or rap: for children in rural Cuba the epitome of cool is writing and singing a ten-line poem -- a art form ...
Cuba has a remarkable history. Consider that Havana was a diverse, multicultural, global capital of universities and opera houses back when New York City was little more than wooden village.
Improvised oral poetry, known as "repentismo" or "punto cubano" when set to music, was introduced to Latin America by Spanish colonists in the 16th century, and remains an integral part of Cuba's ...