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by Moore, Robin D., Madrid, Alejandro L.
fromCurrents in Latin American & Iberian music
by Moore, Robin D., Madrid, Alejandro L.
fromCurrents in Latin American & Iberian music
Initially branching out of the European contradance tradition the danzón first emerged as a distinct form of music and dance among black performers in 19th-century Cuba. By the early 20th-century, it had exploded in popularity throughout the Gulf of Mexico and Caribbean basin. T…
Initially branching out of the European contradance tradition, the danzón first emerged as a distinct form of music and dance among black performers in nineteenth-century Cuba. By the early twentieth-century, it had exploded in popularity throughout the Gulf of Mexico and Caribb…