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CD Review – Eliades Ochoa: Vamos a Bailar un Son

  • by cuba50
  • Posted on 19/01/202319/01/2023

CD/vinyl, World Circuit, October 2022 As a key member of the Buena Vista Social Club,…

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Book review – Jose Marti Reader Writings on the Americas

  • by cuba50
  • Posted on 05/01/202319/01/2023

Pub. Ocean Press To mark 170 years this January since the birth in Havana in…

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  • Cuban Literature

5 books for Summer reading on Cuban culture

  • by cuba50
  • Posted on 15/08/202219/01/2023

We recommend these 5 books for your Summer reading on Cuban culture – from short…

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  • Cuban Literature

Review: Yoruba from Cuba – Selected Poems by Nicolás Guillén

  • by cuba50
  • Posted on 08/07/202215/08/2022

This exemplary book of the selected poetry of Nicolás Guillén, Cuba’s first ‘national poet’, contains…

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Review of film: Mambo Man

  • by cuba50
  • Posted on 10/04/2022

Back in 2017 UK music producer Mo Fini set out to make a film set…

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Review of Buena Vista Social Club 25th Anniversary edition album

  • by cuba50
  • Posted on 18/10/2021

A quarter of a century ago, Nick Gold and Juan de Marcos González, along with…

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Cuba Music and Revolution – Culture clash in Havana Cuba: Experiments in Latin Music 1975-85

  • by cuba50
  • Posted on 28/07/202130/07/2021

Review of CD: Cuba Music and Revolution – Culture clash in Havana Cuba: Experiments in…

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Review of ‘The Cuba Reader: History, Culture, Politics’

  • by cuba50
  • Posted on 27/07/202130/07/2021

The Cuba Reader: History, Culture, Politics2nd edition, Duke University PressEditors: Aviva Chomsky, Barry Carr, Alfredo…

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  • Cuban Literature

‘A Miniature Garden’ New book of poetry from Cuban poet Anna Lidia Vega

  • by cuba50
  • Posted on 01/07/202130/07/2021

Review of A Miniature Garden / Un Jardin en Miniature, Poems by Anna Lidia Vega…

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  • Cuban Music

Having a good time – review of CD Pupy y Los que Son Son: Pasandola Bien

  • by cuba50
  • Posted on 29/01/2021

Cuban salsa maestro César Pedroso, otherwise known as Pupy, knows his audience. His tumbaos, the…

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  • Cuban Music

CD Review: Roberto Fonseca: Yesun “The album I always wanted to make”

  • by cuba50
  • Posted on 26/01/202018/07/2020

The first track on Roberto Fonseca’s 2001 breakthrough album ‘No Limit’ was dedicated to Yemaya,…

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  • Cuban Dance

Review of ‘Herencia’ documentary on Cuba’s African heritage

  • by cuba50
  • Posted on 02/01/202024/09/2020

When Spanish journalist Ana Hurtado went to Cuba for the first time a few years…

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  • Cuban Music

CD Review: Adalberto Álvarez y su son: Casino…el baile popular

  • by cuba50
  • Posted on 17/10/201804/08/2020

This album of non-stop quality Cuban Casino dance music is a treasure for any lover…

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Biography of a Runaway Slave: book review

  • by cuba50
  • Posted on 01/10/201818/11/2018

Given there are few written testimonies by enslaved people anywhere, this, “the first personal and…

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  • Cuban Literature

Review of The Book of Havana: A city in short fiction

  • by cuba50
  • Posted on 29/07/201814/08/2018

The editor of this new collection of short stories by Cuban writers describes the essence…

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