Cuban music is recognized unanimously as a major historical force
behind Latin American popular music, and as an important player in
the development of US popular music and jazz. However, the music
produced on the island after the Revolution in 1959 has been
largely overlooked and overshadowed by the Buena Vista Social Club
phenomenon. The Revolution created the conditions for the birth of
a type of highly sophisticated popular music, which has grown
relatively free from market pressures. These conditions premised
the new importance attained by Afro-Cuban dance music during the
1990s, when the island entered a period of deep economic and social
crisis that has shaken Revolutionary institutions from their
foundations. Vincenzo Perna investigates the role of black popular
music in post-Revolutionary Cuba, and in the 1990s in particular.
The emergence of timba is analysed as a distinctively new style of
Afro-Cuban dance music. The controversial role of Afro-Cuban
working class culture is highlighted, showing how this has resisted
co-optation into a unified, pacified vision of national culture,
and built musical bridges with the transnational black diaspora.
Musically, timba represents an innovative fusion of previous
popular and folkloric Afro-Cuban styles with elements of hip-hop
and other African-American styles like jazz, funk and salsa. Timba
articulates a black urban youth subculture with distinctive visual
and choreographic codes. With its abrasive commentaries on issues
such as race, consumer culture, tourism, prostitution and its
connections to the underworld, timba demonstrates at the 'street
level' many of the contradictions of contemporary Cuban society.
After repeatedly colliding with official discourses, timba has
eventually met with institutional repression. This book will appeal
not only to ethnomusicologists and those working on popular music
studies, but also to those working in the areas of cultural and
Black studies, anthropology, Latin American studies, Cuban studies
and Caribbean studies.
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