Archive for September, 2022
Turning the Beat Around: Spotlight on Merceditas Valdés
• September 28, 2022 • Leave a CommentPosted in 1940s, 1950s, collectors, Cuba, dance, donations, exhibitions, Florida International University, Francis Xavier Luca, gifts, graphic arts, interns, library donors, museums, photography, The Wolfsonian Library, Vicki Gold Levi, Wolfsonian staff
Tags: "La Pequeña Aché de Cuba", Adolfo Guzmán, Afro-Cuban dance culture, Afro-Cuban jazz, Afro-Cuban music, afrocubanismo, Alberto Zayas, album covers, Ángel Valdés, Babalú Ayé, Cándido Camero, Chano Pozo, Cine de rumberas, CMQ radio, CMQ television, conga drums, Coro Yoruba y Tambores Batá, Cuba, Cuban musicians, Cuban revolution 1959, Cuban singers, descargas (jam sessions), Dr. Fernando Ortiz, Entertainers, ethnomusicology, exhibitions, Francis Xavier Luca, Gilberto Valdés, Grupo Coral Folklórico de Cuba, Guillermo Barreto, Hermanas Oblatas de la Providencia, Ignacio Piñeiro, installations, Isúpo Irágüo (musical group), Israel ("Cachao") López Valdés (1918–2008), Jesús Pérez, Joe Loco Quintet, Los Bucaneros, Los Roncos (rumba ensemble), Machito, mambo, Mambo Rumba Festival (Carnegie Hall : February 20 1954), Margarita Lecuona, Mario Bauza, Mercedes Valdés, Merceditas Valdés, Miguelito Valdés, Mongo Santamaría, musicians, Myrta Silva, Ninón Sevilla, Obdulio Morales, Olga Guillot, orisha, Panart (record label), Phillips-Fort Dance Troupe, photographs, Pupi Campo Orchestra, Rafael Somavilla, religious Afro-Cuban music, Santería, secular Afro-Cuban music, singers, timbalero, Tito Puente, Tropicana (Nightclub), Turn the Beat Around (Wolfsonian exhibition : Oct. 2022-April 2023), Universidad de Habana, vocalists, Yambaó (Cry of the Bewitched), Yoruba religion, Zun Zun Danbaé show at the Cabaret Sans Souci
Turning the Beat Around: Spotlight on Miguelito Valdés
• September 22, 2022 • Leave a CommentPosted in 1940s, 1950s, collectors, Cuba, dance, donations, exhibitions, Florida International University, Francis Xavier Luca, gifts, graphic arts, interns, library donors, museums, photography, posters, rare books and special collections library, The Wolfsonian Library, Vicki Gold Levi, Wolfsonian staff
Tags: Afro-Cuban music, album covers, Babalú-Ayé, bolero, Chano Pozo, conga drums, Cuba, Cuban musicians, Cuban singers, Entertainers, Francis Xavier Luca, guaracha, Hotel Tequendama (Bogotá), La Conga (nightclubs), La Siboney (nightclub), Leonard Finger, Los Hermanos Castro, Machito, Machito and His Afro-Cubans, Margarita Lecuona, Mario Bauzá, Miguelito Valdés, musicians, Orchesta Casino de la Playa, orisha, Pan-Americana (film : 1945), Panama, photographs, rumba, Señor Babalú, singers, son, Starlight Roof (Waldorf-Astoria, Vera Eskilssen Tejada, vocalists, Xavier Cugat (1900-1990), Yoruba religion, You Were Never Lovelier (film : 1942)
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