History of Tumbadoras (and Cuban music).

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History of Tumbadoras (and Cuban music).

Postby Firebrand » Mon Oct 27, 2008 3:16 pm

I'm looking for a good, very substantive, college-level-style book on the history of Cuban music and the instruments use.

Does anybody have any recommendations? If you had 2 books to recommend only...which ones would they be?
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Re: History of Tumbadoras (and Cuban music).

Postby bongosnotbombs » Mon Oct 27, 2008 4:03 pm

http://www.amazon.com/Cuba-Its-Music-Fi ... 1556525168

http://www.amazon.com/Afro-Cuban-Rhythm ... 060&sr=8-1

http://www.amazon.com/Rumba-Social-Chan ... 94&sr=1-11


The first one has been recommended to me, I've flipped though it at the store, looks good, just have not
bought it yet.

I've read the second, really good, it has sections on Mongo, Armando and Francisco. Discusses the migrations of the Carribean islands and how it influences and explains the popularity of Cuban music.

I have also read the third one, more modern history but very good, focuses a bit on dance, but there is a lot of information on the music and drums. I really liked this one too.
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Re: History of Tumbadoras (and Cuban music).

Postby davidpenalosa » Tue Oct 28, 2008 12:39 am

Firebrand,
Here's a substantive, college-level article by Nolan Warden on the history of the conga drum. It has more info on the drum than the recommended books.

http://www.nolanwarden.com/Conga_Drum_History(Warden).pdf

Sublet's book is a great overview.
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Re: History of Tumbadoras (and Cuban music).

Postby Laurent Lamy » Tue Oct 28, 2008 9:00 am

Thanks David but the link is broken !
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Re: History of Tumbadoras (and Cuban music).

Postby bongosnotbombs » Tue Oct 28, 2008 3:48 pm

Laurent Lamy wrote:Thanks David but the link is broken !


http://www.nolanwarden.com/info.html

Nolan asks not to repost without permission, I think that prevents linking directly to the article??
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Re: History of Tumbadoras (and Cuban music).

Postby korman » Tue Oct 28, 2008 8:13 pm

In the beginning of Poncho Sanchez' "Conga cookbook" they have reproduced a good 7 page article on history of tumbadoras by Cuban musicologist Olavo Alen Rodriguez.

I can recommend Ned Sublette's book, too. It does not go very deep in instruments, but it's a good general history of music that is nicely interwoven with history of Cuba, a very interesting read. The DVD "Roots of rhythm" that was recommended in another thread nicely complements it visually (but of course lacks the breadth of book, you can only show so much even if the film is 3 hours long)
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Re: History of Tumbadoras (and Cuban music).

Postby bongosnotbombs » Tue Oct 28, 2008 11:46 pm

korman wrote:In the beginning of Poncho Sanchez' "Conga cookbook" they have reproduced a good 7 page article on history of tumbadoras by Cuban musicologist Olavo Alen Rodriguez.

I think Afrocuba web has that article available here..

http://www.afrocubaweb.com/cidmuc.htm

I can't say for sure it is the same article as I don't have Pancho's book, it's a gppd article, an excerpt from his book
Atlas of the Folkloric-Popular Instruments of Cuba, which I guess is also available from Afrocuba web for $200!.
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Re: History of Tumbadoras (and Cuban music).

Postby korman » Wed Oct 29, 2008 6:44 am

bongosnotbombs wrote:I can't say for sure it is the same article as I don't have Pancho's book


Yes, it's the same article! I did not know it was available there for free:)
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Re: History of Tumbadoras (and Cuban music).

Postby guarachon63 » Wed Oct 29, 2008 3:29 pm

Thanks David but the link is broken !


It was just the hyperlink (the part in blue) if you copy and paste the whole line (including the ").pdf") it will work. Here it is again:

http://www.nolanwarden.com/Conga_Drum_History(Warden).pdf

Nolan asks not to repost without permission, I think that prevents linking directly to the article??


I'm pretty sure just linking directly to an article is not considered reposting. Reposting would occur when, for example, someone downloads the pdf from Nolan's server then hosts it on their own server, and links to that one. Or copying all the text and putting it on another website in html format.

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