Danzón: Circum-Caribbean Dialogues in Music and Dance

by Alejandro L. Madrid and Robin D. Moore

Initially branching out of the European contradance tradition, the danz n 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 Caribbean basin. A fundamentally hybrid music and dance complex, it reflects the fusion of European and African elements and had a strong influence on the development of later Latin...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 019996582X
• ISBN13: 9780199965823
• Release Date: November 2013
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 304 Pages
• Weight: 0.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.1" x 9.1"