ETHNOMUS 25 Lecture Notes - Lecture 15: Mbira, Yoruba Language, Guajeo
21 Apr 2016
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Music telling about past is never neutral or unbiased, history itself is always dependent on the storyteller. Remembering can be internal, history is public through sound, text, etc. Buena vista social club (1997), world circuit records. Cuban son popular from 1920"s onward, he had a taste for this music and asked a local producer to organize musicians that he had know or played with. Geographically very close to u. s. , not politically very different. European diseases wiped out much of population, so in order to sustain sugar industry they took part in triangle trade, enslaving central western africans. African culture survived in cuba in ways it could not in u. s> by music making. By 1930s, us investors owned 90% of land, 30% services, us would travel there to party and drink, and cubans had to deal with this rise in their community. Cubans who would consider themselves black were excluded from this westernized society, divisions occurred.
