Research Catalog

Title

Queens of Havana : the amazing adventures of Anacaona, Cuba's legendary all-girl dance band / Alicia Castro ; as told to Ingrid Kummels and Manfred Schäfer ; translated by Steven T. Murray.

Author

Castro, Alicia, 1920-

Publication

New York : Grove Press ; [Berkeley, Calif.] : Distributed by Publishers Group West, 2007.

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Additional Authors

• Kummels, Ingrid
• Schäfer, Manfred

Description

393 p. : ill.; 23 cm.

Summary

Alicia Castro was born in 1920 in Havana, Cuba ... playing with her sisters in their band, Anacaona ... her memoir of the band emerged from countless conversations with her niece, Ingrid Kummels (the daughter of Anacaona's drummer, Millo) and Manfred Schafer.

Uniform Title

Anacaona. English

Alternative Title

• Anacaona.
• Amazing adventures of Anacaona, Cuba's legendary all-girl dance band

Subject

• Castro, Alicia, 1920-
• Anacaona (Musical group) > History
• Women musicians > Cuba > Biography
• Big bands > Cuba

Genre/Form

• Biographies
• History
• History.

Note

• First published: London : Atlantic, c2007.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 391).

Contents

Happy hour -- Our family : an ajiaco with many ingredients -- Sextet with a black blonde -- Island in a sea of vice -- The aires libres and jazz -- In the Paris of the new world -- "Who here is working with an Indian woman?" -- From Broadway to the Champs-Elysées -- A macho guy is always tempting -- The honourable society -- Don't meddle with the saints -- Irresistible Cuban women -- With a needle and thread on Wall Street -- Rebellion and mambo -- Music and love in times of change -- Water for Obatalá -- Glossary.

ISBN

• 9780802118561
• 0802118569

OCLC

• 154669096
• SCSB-10278883

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library