A Tuba to Cuba (2018) - doc
A New Orleans brass band travels to Havana to trace the African roots shared by Cuban and New Orleans music. The rhythmic connections they discover illuminate just how deep the Cuban contribution to the Americas runs.
What It Covers
The Preservation Hall Jazz Band travels to Cuba to meet musicians playing traditions descended from the same African sources that shaped New Orleans jazz. The film documents performances, street scenes, and conversations between musicians who realize they've been speaking the same rhythmic language from opposite sides of the Gulf of Mexico.
Why Dancers Should Watch It
For Cuban dancers, this film makes visible something easy to take for granted: the global reach of the Afro-Cuban rhythmic tradition. Watching New Orleans musicians encounter clave and recognize it in their own music is a reminder of what clave actually is — not a Cuban quirk but a fundamental African organizing principle that traveled wherever the diaspora went. The joy of that recognition is infectious.
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La Rumba es la más arraigada en lo africano de todas las formas de música y danza cubanas — nacida en las calles, los patios y los muelles de La Habana y matanzas"> Matanzas a finales del siglo XIX, sin instrumentos europeos, sin ambiente de salón y sin pretensión alguna de decoro europeo.
Lees meer >Cuba is the largest island in the Caribbean and the birthplace of some of the world's most influential music and dance traditions. African, Spanish, and French cultural streams collided here over centuries of colonial history, producing an extraordinary creative culture that exported itself across the globe.
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La clave es un patrón rítmico fundamental y principio organizador de la música cubana. Funciona tanto como patrón musical como concepto rector, profundamente arraigado en las tradiciones afrocubanas.
Lees meer >El trombón es la voz de metales más característica de la timba"> timba. Mientras que la música popular cubana anterior se apoyaba principalmente en las trompetas, la timba"> timba desplazó el peso de los metales hacia los trombones, otorgando a la música un sonido de viento más grave, oscuro y agresivo.
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