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"Somos Cubanos!" timba cubana and the construction of national identity in Cuban popular music

  • Autores: Patrick Froelicher
  • Localización: Trans : Transcultural Music Review = Revista Transcultural de Música, ISSN-e 1697-0101, Nº. 9, 2005
  • Idioma: inglés
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    • The complex processes that led to the emergence of salsa as an expression of a Latin identity for Spanish-speaking people in New York City constitute the background before which the Cuban timba discourse has to be seen. Timba, I argue, is the consequent continuation of the Cuban anti-salsa-discourse from the 1980s, which regarded salsa basically as a commercial label for Cuban music played by non-Cuban musicians. I interpret timba as an attempt by Cuban musicians to distinguish themselves from the international Salsa scene. This distinction is aspired by regular references to the contemporary changes in Cuban society after the collapse of the Soviet Union. Thus, the timba is a child of the socialist Cuban music landscape as well as a product of the rapidly changing Cuban society of the 1990s.


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