Archive for January, 2023
Afro-Cuban Dance Music in Hollywood and Mexican Movies
• January 28, 2023 • 1 CommentPosted in 1920s, 1930s, 1940s, 1950s, acquisitions, bars, collectors, Cuba, curator, donations, Francis Xavier Luca, gifts, graphic arts, graphic designers, museums, posters, promotional materials, Puerto Rico, slums, The Wolfsonian Library, Vicki Gold Levi, Wolfsonian staff
Tags: "Cherry Pink (and Apple Blossom White)" (song), "El Manisero" [The Peanut Vendor] (song), "Patricia" (song), A Century of Progress International Exposition (Chicago: 1933-1934), Abakuá, actresses, Afro-Cuban jazz, Afro-Cuban polyrhythms, Andrea Queeley, Another Thin Man (film: 1939), ballroom dancing, big bands, cabaret dancing, Carole Lombard, cha cha cha, Cha-Cha-Cha Boom! (film: 1956), Chano Pozo, Chicago World's Fair (1933/34), conga drums, conga line dancing, Cuba, Cuban exiles, Cuban expatriates, Cuban Revolution of 1933, Cuban Revolution of 1959, dancers, danzón, Desi Arnaz (1917-1986), Desiderio Alberto Arnaz II, Dizzy Gillespie, Dominicans, Don Azpiazú and his Havana Casino Orchestra, El Bar de Hilda, ephemera, Eva Silot-Bravo, film-noirs, Francis Xavier Luca, George Raft, Harlem, Havana (Cuba), Havana-Madrid (nightclub), Holiday in Havana (film : 1949), Hollywood movies, I Love Lucy (television series), Jane Powell, Justo Ángel Azpiazú (1893–1943), La Dolce Vita (film : 1960), Latin jazz, Lawrence Tibbett, Lupe Velez, Luxury Liner (film : 1948), Margo, Matanzas (Cuba), melodramas, Mexican movies, Mexico, music, New York City, Nuyoricans, Pérez Prado, Perez Prado, Puerto Ricans, race, Racial prejudice, racism, Ramona Ajón, reggaeton, René and Estela, René Rivero Guillén, rhumba, Robin Moore, Rock & Roll, Rock Around the Clock (film), rumba, Rumba (film : 1935), rumba dancers, rumberas films, rumberos, salsa, Santiago de Cuba, Sheet music covers, Silvano “Chori” Shueg, singers, slums, solares, soneros, swing, The Beat Goes On (Panel discussion), The Cuban Love Song (film: 1931), Tierra Brava (film : 1938), timbalero, timbaleros, Too Many Girls (film: 1940), Turn the Beat Around (Wolfsonian exhibition : Oct. 2022-April 2023), Un Extraño en la Escalera [A Stranger on the Stairs] (film : 1955), Underwater! (film : 1954), Xavier Cugat (1900-1990)
Spotlight on Machito and the Titos–The Three Kings of Mambo By Far
• January 6, 2023 • Leave a CommentPosted in 1940s, 1950s, acquisitions, collectors, Cuba, curators, donations, exhibitions, Francis Xavier Luca, gifts, graphic arts, interns, library donors, museums, Puerto Rico, The Wolfsonian Library
Tags: "King of the Mambo", Afro-Cuban dance culture, Afro-Cuban jazz, album cover art, album covers, arrangers, Arsenio Rodríguez, Big 3 Palladium Orchestra, Birdland (Nightclub), Cab Calloway, Celia Cruz, cha cha cha, Chano Pozo, Charlie Parker, Club Cuba, Club Cuba (Nightclub), composers, concerts, Cuban bandleaders, Cuban bebop, Cubans, Cubop City (Nightclub), Dizzy Gillespie, drummers, ephemera, Fania All-Stars, Francis Xavier Luca, Frank Grillo, Harlem Renaissance, Israel ("Cachao") López Valdés (1918–2008), Jazz, jazz musicians, La Lupe, Machito, Machito and His Afro-Cubans, mambo, mambo madness, Mario Bauzá, Miguelito Valdés, New York City, Nuyoricans, Orchestra Siboney, Palladium (Dance hall), percussionists, Perez Prado, Puerto Rican bandleaders, Puerto Ricans, RCA Victor, Sheet music covers, Stan Kenton, the "Borscht Belt", the Catskills, The Peanut Vendor (song), The Three Kings, Three Kings Day, Tico Records, timbaleros, Tito Puente, Tito Rodriguez, Turn the Beat Around (Wolfsonian exhibition : Oct. 2022-April 2023), United Artists Records, Vicki Gold Levi, Victoria Calveira
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