Afro-Cubans or Black Cubans are Cubans of full or partial sub-Saharan African ancestry. The term Afro-Cuban can also refer to historical or cultural elements...

in Cuba.: 59  In the early 1970s, Kenny Dorham and his Orquesta Cubana de Música Moderna, and later Irakere, brought Afro-Cuban jazz into the Cuban music...

Afro-Cuban jazz first emerged in the early 1940s, with the Cuban musicians Mario Bauza and Frank Grillo "Machito" in the band Machito and his Afro-Cubans,...

Afro-Cuban All Stars is a Cuban band led by Juan de Marcos González. Their music is a mix of all the styles of Cuban music, including bolero, chachachá...

events, the secular yambú was adopted into this Afro-Cuban religion. Many of the rhythmic innovations in Cuban popular music, from the early twentieth century...

band founded by Machito in 1940 Afro-Cuban All Stars, a Cuban band formed in 1996 Cabildo (Cuba) Emancipados Haitian Cuban This disambiguation page lists...

clave-based Cuban popular music sounded both familiar and exotic. The Encyclopedia of Africa v. 1. states: "Beginning in the 1940s, Afro-Cuban [son] groups...

Cuban American populations. Florida (2,000,000 in 2023) has the highest concentration of Cuban Americans in the United States. Over 1,200,000 Cuban-Americans...

African-American music began incorporating Afro-Cuban rhythmic motifs in the 19th century when the habanera (Cuban contradanza) gained international popularity...

categories are Afro-Cuban jazz, rhythmically based on Cuban popular dance music, with a rhythm section employing ostinato patterns or a clave, and Afro-Brazilian...

began incorporating Afro-Cuban rhythmic motifs in the 1800s with the popularity of the Cuban contradanza (known outside of Cuba as the habanera). The...

prefix Afro- plus a specific nationality,: 3–4  such as Afro-Brazilian, Afro-Cuban or Afro-Haitian. The accuracy of statistics reporting on Afro–Latin...

("the rule of Lucumí"). Santería is an Afro-Caribbean religion, and more specifically an Afro-Cuban religion. In Cuba it is sometimes described as "the national...

emigrants from Cuba leaving the harsh prospects of the Cuban economy. Between 1965 and 1968, the Cuban government interned LGBTQ Cubans, along with others...

mambo, salsa, songo, timba and Afro-Cuban jazz. The five-stroke clave pattern represents the structural core of many Cuban rhythms. The study of rhythmic...

from different racial backgrounds including Afro-Cuban women. Along with Afro-Cuban women, women in Cuba, formerly a marginalized group, were able to...

lighter skinned, mixed race, Afro-Cuban mulattos are often not characterized as fully black or fully white. Race conceptions in Cuba are unique because of its...

(also called cha-cha), is a dance of Cuban origin. It is danced to the music of the same name introduced by the Cuban composer and violinist Enrique Jorrin...

Afro-Cuban is an album by American jazz trumpeter Kenny Dorham, recorded for Blue Note on March 29, 1955 and released later that year on the Blue Note...

patterns that are common to traditional West African and Afro-Cuban music. The musicians involved in AfroCubism already had successful careers through participation...

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national flower. Cuba is home to six terrestrial ecoregions: Cuban moist forests, Cuban dry forests, Cuban pine forests, Cuban wetlands, Cuban cactus scrub...

in Cuba for over fifty years." Similarly, Tito Puente stated: "The only salsa I know is sold in a bottle called ketchup. I play Cuban music. Cuban musicologist...

edu/8041795/The_origin_of_Cuban_music._Myths_and_Facts, p. 89 Thomas, Susan. "Cosmopolitan, International, Transnational: Locating Cuban Music." Cuba Transnational...

Michael Zager (born January 3, 1943) is an American record producer, composer, and arranger of original music for commercials, albums, network television...

protests and uprisings in 1912 in Cuba, which saw conflict between Afro-Cuban rebels and the armed forces of Cuba. It took place mainly in the eastern...

Timba is a Cuban genre of music based on Cuban son with salsa, American Funk/R&B and the strong influence of Afro-Cuban folkloric music. Timba rhythm sections...

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adaptation of Afro-Cuban two-celled, clave-based patterns in New Orleans blues. Michael Campbell stated, "Rhythm and blues influenced by Afro-Cuban music first...