Cuban Fusion: The Transnational Cuban Alteative Music Scene (Palgrave Pivot)

by: Eva Silot Bravo (Author)

Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan

Edition: 2024th

Publication Date: 2024/4/13

Language: English

Print Length: 199 pages

ISBN-10: 3031536916

ISBN-13: 9783031536915

Book Description

Surveying the impact of Cuba’s economic crisis after the demise of the easte socialist block, this book documents a relatively unexplored transnational network of collaborations among Cuban musicians that migrated to many different countries from the 1990s forward. The book’s main argument is that in light of the 1990s crisis in Cuba, new transnational and alteative narratives emerged, resulting in creative “in-between” spaces that reflect a post- socialist aesthetic condition. The manuscript also documents important developments in the Cuban jazz and fusion scenes outside the island in the last 20+ years..

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Surveying the impact of Cuba’s economic crisis after the demise of the easte socialist block, this book documents a relatively unexplored transnational network of collaborations among Cuban musicians that migrated to many different countries from the 1990s forward. The book’s main argument is that in light of the 1990s crisis in Cuba, new transnational and alteative narratives emerged, resulting in creative “in-between” spaces that reflect a post- socialist aesthetic condition. The manuscript also documents important developments in the Cuban jazz and fusion scenes outside the island in the last 20+ years..