Description
About the Author
Ned Sublette is the co-founder of the Qbadisc record label. He has co-produced the public radio program 'Afropop Worldwide' for seven years and travelled frequently to Cuba since 1990. He lives in New York City.
Reviews
"As enthralling as it is comprehensive, [Sublette's] book breathes life and fire into the whole history of Cuban music." --Bonnie Raitt
"Essential . . . a solid, supremely lush effort." -- Publishers Weekly
"Like none other...a chronicle as much of the music itself as of the histories embedded in the sounds." --The Boston Phoenix
"It was Cuba that turned beat around, and thanks to Sublette any serious music fan will now know why." -- The New York Times Book Review
"If you buy only one book on Cuba in your Life . . . this is the one." -- The Nation
"Ned, a New Yorker, has painted with a latin passion a huge fresco of Cuba and its music with exquisite and astounding details. A real page turner!" --Georges Collinet, host of Afropop Worldwide
"Sublette's book does for the field of Cuban popular music what Perez Prado's 'Mambo Number Five' did for the mambo--bring the tradition to world attention in a rich and most fabulous way." --Robert Farris Thompson, author of Flash of the Spirit:African and Afro-American Art and Philosopy
"Magesterial . . . absorbing . . . fascinating . . . enlightening . . . compulsively readable pages . . . anyone (interested in Cuban music) should be reading this right now." --pitchforkmedia.com
Book Information
ISBN 9781556526329
Author Ned Sublette
Format Paperback
Page Count 688
Imprint Chicago Review Press
Publisher Chicago Review Press
Weight(grams) 889g