Cortijo's wake: El entierro de Cortijo

by Rodríguez Juliá, Edgardo

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This book is novelist Edgardo Rodriguez Julia's vivid description of the funeral of legendary Puerto Rican musician Rafael Cortijo (1928-1982). El entierro de Cortijo became an immediate bestseller following its original publication in Puerto Rico in 1983. An unparalleled Afro-Puerto Rican percussionist and bandleader, Cortijo revolutionized the country's musical culture. His band, Cortijo y Su Combo, captivated Caribbean and Latin American audiences as it emerged in the mid-1950s. Immensely po…

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Title Statements

  • Full title :Cortijo's wake = : El entierro de Cortijo / Edgardo Rodriguez Julia ; translated and with an introduction by Juan Flores.

Summary

This book is novelist Edgardo Rodriguez Julia's vivid description of the funeral of legendary Puerto Rican musician Rafael Cortijo (1928-1982). El entierro de Cortijo became an immediate bestseller following its original publication in Puerto Rico in 1983. An unparalleled Afro-Puerto Rican percussionist and bandleader, Cortijo revolutionized the country's musical culture. His band, Cortijo y Su Combo, captivated Caribbean and Latin American audiences as it emerged in the mid-1950s. Immensely popular across Puerto Rican social classes, the band both "modernized" the traditional vernacular forms of bomba and plena and forcefully re-established their African and working class roots.

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Edition Statements

  • Publication Date:2004.

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Notes

Includes original and translation of: El entierro de Cortijo.

The Physical Object

  • Description:1 online resource (136 pages : : illustrations (some color))

Edition Identifiers

  • oclc:on1148584706
  • LC Classification:ML410.C8245
  • Dewey Decimal:781.64/092

Subjects

Biographies Cortijo, Rafael Musicians Musicians -- Biography. -- Puerto Rico Musiciens -- Biographies. -- Porto Rico Porto Rico -- Conditions sociales Puerto Rico Puerto Rico -- Social conditions Social conditions

Writers

Rodríguez Juliá, Edgardo

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