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    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...
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  • his Afro-Cubans in New York City. In 1947, the collaborations of bebop trumpeter Dizzy Gillespie and percussionist Chano Pozo brought Afro-Cuban rhythms...
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    The population of Cuba was 11,167,325 inhabitants in 2012. The largest urban populations of Cubans in Cuba (2012) are to be found in Havana (2,106,146)...
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  • guaracha, guajira, guaguancó, etc. Cubans and non Cubans, such as Tito Puente, Rubén Blades and many experts of the Cuban music and salsa have always said...
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  • Racism in Cuba refers to racial discrimination in Cuba. In Cuba, dark skinned Afro-Cubans are the only group on the island referred to as black while...
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  • Machito's brother-in-law. The Afro-Cubans combined Cuban music with orchestrations derived from swing. As well, the Afro-Cubans played with and incorporated...
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    portal Cuba portal Hispanic and Latino Americans portal Floridanos Cubans in Florida Afro-Cubans Canarian people Caribbean Americans Chinese Cubans Ciboney...
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    terms have been used in Cuba to refer to parties, such as changüí (in Oriente), guateque (in rural regions), tumba (by Afro-Cubans), bembé (associated with...
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  • composed by Cuban-born Mario Bauza and recorded by Machito and his Afro-Cubans in New York City. "Tanga" began as a spontaneous descarga (Cuban jam session)...
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  • Afro-Cubans are Cubans who are of Black African ancestry. The term may also refer to: Afro-Cuban (album), a 1955 album by Kenny Dorham Afro-Cubans (band)...
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    life in Cuba, calling for a step towards an existence without sexism. Sexism in Cuba goes hand in hand with the racism experienced by Afro-Cubans. Black...
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    When Gay Cubans Took Over Miami". southfloridagaynews.com. South Florida Gay News. Gosin, Monika (2017). ""A bitter diversion": Afro-Cuban immigrants...
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    Santería (category Afro-Cuban culture)
    of Afro-Cubans into broader Cuban society and recommended its suppression. In the 1920s, there were efforts to incorporate elements of Afro-Cuban culture...
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    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...
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  • War of 1912 (category Cuba articles missing geocoordinate data)
    the island, where most Afro-Cubans were employed. After weeks of fighting, which involved massacres of Afro-Cubans by the Cuban National Army led by General...
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    "Refworld | World Directory of Minorities and Indigenous Peoples – Cuba: Afro-Cubans". Refworld. Marcheco-Teruel, Beatriz; Parra, Esteban J.; Fuentes-Smith...
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    by younger Cubans to the U.S. In the last few years before the end of the wet feet, dry feet policy on January 12, 2017, the number of Cubans moving to...
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  • 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...
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    Clave (rhythm) (category Music of Cuba)
    New York City during the 1940s by Cuban-born Mario Bauza while he was the music director of Machito and his Afro-Cubans. Bauzá was a master at moving the...
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    of Afro-Cubans as well as biracial Cubans speak Haitian Creole. Haitian Creole is the second-most spoken language as well as a recognized one in Cuba, with...
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  • Latin jazz (category Cuban styles of music)
    Bauza and recorded by Machito and his Afro-Cubans the same year, 1943. The tune was initially a descarga (Cuban jam) with jazz solos superimposed, spontaneously...
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    Platt Amendment (category 1901 in Cuba)
    Afro-Cubans, who hoped that their participation in the Spanish-American War would mean equality with the white planters and commercial elites of Cuba...
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    Mario Bauzá (category Afro-Cuban jazz composers)
    the first truly Afro-Cuban jazz tune (attributed to Bauzá), were followed by "Cubop City" and "Mambo Inn". Machito and his Afro-Cubans often played straight-ahead...
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    Afro-Cuban jazz emerged in the early 1940s with the Cuban musicians Mario Bauza and Frank Grillo "Machito" in the band Machito and his Afro-Cubans in...
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    began incorporating Afro-Cuban rhythmic motifs in the 1800s with the popularity of the Cuban contradanza (known outside of Cuba as the habanera). The...
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  • Chinese Cubans (Spanish: chino-cubano) are Cubans of full or mixed Chinese ancestry who were born in or have immigrated to Cuba. They are part of the...
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  • the Americas. Afro-Brazilians, Afro-Cubans, Afro-Dominicans, Afro-Hondurans, Afro-Panamanians, Afro–Puerto Ricans, Afro-Colombians, Afro-Mexicans and other...
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    African trap music (aka ATM) Afro house Afro fusion Afrobeat Afro jazz Alté Afrobeats Afro tech Afro trap Afro rave Afro rock Afro-soul Amapiano Apala Azonto...
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    Machito (category 20th-century Cuban male singers)
    New York City, Machito formed the Afro-Cubans in 1940, and with Mario Bauzá as musical director, brought together Cuban rhythms and big band arrangements...
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