• The music of Cuba, including its instruments, performance, and dance, comprises a large set of unique traditions influenced mostly by west African and...
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    Cuba, officially the Republic of Cuba, is an island country, comprising the island of Cuba, Isla de la Juventud, archipelagos, 4,195 islands and cays surrounding...
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  • Music of African heritage in Cuba derives from the musical traditions of the many ethnic groups from different parts of West and Central Africa that were...
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  • Son cubano (redirect from Cuban Son)
    genre of music and dance that originated in the highlands of eastern Cuba during the late 19th century. It is a syncretic genre that blends elements of Spanish...
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    Cuba Mark Gooding Jr. (born January 2, 1968) is an American actor. After his breakthrough role as Tre Styles in Boyz n the Hood (1991) he won the Academy...
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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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    Many of these dance elements from European dance and religious dances were fused together to form the basis of la técnica cubana. Cuban music also contributed...
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    Brazilian and Cuban music. In Spanish, clave literally means key, clef, code, or keystone. It is present in a variety of genres such as Abakuá music, rumba,...
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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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    Amerindian influences. The music of Cuba, including the instruments and the dances, is mostly of European and African origin. Most forms of the present day are...
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  • genre of song which originated in eastern Cuba in the late 19th century as part of the trova tradition. Unrelated to the older Spanish dance of the same...
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    of Cuba (Spanish: Presidente de Cuba), officially the president of the Republic of Cuba (Spanish: Presidente de la República de Cuba), is the head of...
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  • Tresillo (rhythm) (category Music of Cuba)
    American music. It is a more basic form of the rhythmic figure known as the habanera. Tresillo is the most fundamental duple-pulse rhythmic cell in Cuban and...
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  • traditional ensemble that plays Cuban dance music. They made Cuban dance music popular in the 1940s and their music consisted of heavily son-influenced material...
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    The economy of Cuba is a planned economy dominated by state-run enterprises. Most of the labor force is employed by the state. In the 1990s, the ruling...
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  • Cuban folk music includes a variety of traditional folk music of Cuba, and has been influenced by the Spanish and the African culture as well as the remaining...
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    Cuba is an island nation in the Caribbean Sea. It comprises an archipelago of islands centred upon the geographic coordinates 21°3N, 80°00W. Cuba is the...
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  • Mambo is a genre of Cuban dance music pioneered by the charanga Arcaño y sus Maravillas in the late 1930s and later popularized in the big band style by...
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    Rumba is a secular genre of Cuban music involving dance, percussion, and song. It originated in the northern regions of Cuba, mainly in urban Havana and...
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  • The island of Cuba was inhabited by various Amerindian cultures prior to the arrival of the explorer Christopher Columbus in 1492. After his arrival, Spain...
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    characteristics of Cuba are known through census which have been conducted and analyzed by different bureaus since 1774. The National Office of Statistics of Cuba (ONE)...
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  • ("don't be a peasant and ask her").[citation needed] Music of Cuba Punto guajiro Galán, Natalio: Cuba y sus sones, Pre-Textos, Artegraf S.A., Madrid, España...
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  • Cuban (born 1958), American entrepreneur Cuban Missile Crisis List of Cubans All pages with titles beginning with Cuban Cuban Boys, a British music act...
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    the sale of arms to Cuba on March 14, 1958, during the Fulgencio Batista regime. Again on October 19, 1960, almost two years after the Cuban Revolution...
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    name Alex Cuba, is a Cuban-Canadian singer-songwriter who sings in Spanish and English. He has won two Juno Awards for World Music Album of the Year:...
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    Santiago de Cuba is the second-largest city in Cuba and the capital city of Santiago de Cuba Province. It lies in the southeastern area of the island,...
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    Alejo Carpentier (category Ambassadors of Cuba to France)
    study of the music of Cuba, La música en Cuba and integrated musical themes and literary techniques throughout his works. He explored elements of Afro-Cubanism...
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    Constitution of Cuba, which was passed in a 2019 referendum, also describes the role of the Communist Party of Cuba to be the "leading force of society and of the...
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  • Songo is a genre of popular Cuban music, created by the group Los Van Van in the early 1970s. Songo incorporated rhythmic elements from folkloric rumba...
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    accurate as of 2012[update] and provincial capitals are shown in bold. List of places in Cuba Municipalities of Cuba Provinces of Cuba "Cuba: Provinces...
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