Research Catalog

Title

Cuba : music and revolution : original album cover art of Cuban music, record sleeve designs of revolutionary Cuba 1959-1990 / compiled by Gilles Peterson & Stuart Baker.

Author

Peterson, Gilles

Publication

London : Soul Jazz Books in association with Soul Jazz Records, 2020.

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Details

Additional Authors

Baker, Stuart

Description

255 pages : color illustrations; 31 x 31 cm

Summary

The first ever book about Cuban record sleeve design, compiled by Gilles Peterson and Stuart Baker, Cuba: Music and Revolution features hundreds of rarely seen vinyl records from the start of the Cuban Revolution at the beginning of the 1960s up until 1985, when Cuba's Special Period, brought about by the dissolution of the Soviet Union and the withdrawal of Russia's financial support for the Cuban government, led to the demise of vinyl-record manufacturing in Cuba. The artwork here reflects both the cultural and musical depth of Cuba as well as the political influence of revolutionary communism. Over the past century, Cuban music has produced a seemingly endless variety of styles--rumba, mambo, son, salsa--at a dizzyingly fast rate. Since the 1940s a steady stream of Cuban musicians has also made the migration to the US, sparking changes in North American musical forms: bandleader Machito set New York's jazz and Latin scene on fire, and master drummer Chano Pozo's entry into Dizzy Gillespie's group led to the birth of Latin jazz, to name just two. After the Cuban Revolution in 1959, the new government closed American-owned nightclubs and consolidated the island's recording industry under a state-run monopoly. Out of this new socialist agenda came new musical styles, including the Nueva Trova movement of left-wing songwriters. The 1980s saw more experimentation in modernist jazz, salsa and Afro-Cuban folkloric music. Generously illustrated with hundreds of color images, 'Cuba: Music and Revolution' presents the history of Cuban record cover art, including many examples previously unseen outside the island itself.

Subject

• 1900-1999
• Sound recordings > Album covers > History > Cuba > 20th century
• Popular music > Cuba > History and criticism
• Popular music
• Sound recordings > Album covers
• Cuba

Genre/Form

• Criticism, interpretation, etc.
• History.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references.

Call Number

*LE+ 21-3552

ISBN

• 9781916359802
• 1916359809

OCLC

1159833209

Author

Peterson, Gilles, author, compiler.

Title

Cuba : music and revolution : original album cover art of Cuban music, record sleeve designs of revolutionary Cuba 1959-1990 / compiled by Gilles Peterson & Stuart Baker.

Publisher

London : Soul Jazz Books in association with Soul Jazz Records, 2020.

Type of Content

text

still image

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references.

Chronological Term

1900-1999

Added Author

Baker, Stuart, author, compiler.

Research Call Number

*LE+ 21-3552