Dr. Andrew Schloss
Office: MacLaurin A177 Local: 721-7931
Office hours: Tues 4:30-5:30 pm or by appointment (call to confirm)
Classes:
MacLaurin A168 Tues 2:30-4:20, Fri 2:30-3:20
email: aschloss at uvic dot ca
Books on reserve or available in the library (See complete list posted in Music and Audio):
TEXT FOR CLASS:
Sublette, Ned: Cuba and its Music: From the First Drums to the Mambo (in the bookstore)
REFERENCE MATERIALS:
| Rebeca Maleón | The Salsa Guidebook |
| Blue Jackal | Cuba, I am Time (booklet and boxed set w/ four CD's) |
| John Storm Roberts | The Latin Tinge |
| Peter Manuel | Essays on Cuban Music |
| Peter Manuel | Popular Music of the World |
| Jaap Kunst | Ethnomusicology: a study of its nature, its problems, methods and representative personalities to which is added a bibliography. |
| Helen Myers, et alia | Ethnomusicology, An Introduction |
| Murphy Joseph M. | Santería: An African Religion In America |
| Charley Gerard et alia | Salsa! : the rhythm of Latin music |
| Hagaman, Alice | Religion in Cuba Today |
Plus numerous CD's and cassettes. See materials at the Music and Audio desk in the library. Items are also listed online in course reserves.
CD's
on reserve with notes in brochure form:
Carnaval in Cuba 1980
The Cuban Danzón
Llistening Examples on reserve—10 CD set—Guide to recordings
Grading:
paper 25%
video journal 10%
final project (includes perfoming) 35%
Final exam (includes listening) 30%
This course serves for many students as an
introduction to the field of Ethnomusicology as well as to
Cuban music and culture.
We will study Cuba's folkloric, popular and religious music, all of
which are inter-related.
Because Cuba's history and culture are so
varied, we must also examine Spain, Europe, and
West Africa in order to understand Cuba.
In addition, we survey the
profound and far-reaching influence that
Cuba has had on popular music around the world.
Finally, we examine
the recent political and social history of Cuba, to
try to understand exactly where the culture is today and where it
is headed.
SCHEDLULE (May vary slightly from this chronology):
Week 1 September Introduction to class: overview, panorama of musical examples, introduction to clave.
Week 2 September What is Ethnomusicology?, vergleichende
Musikwissenschaft , prescriptive vs. descriptive notation
READING: Part I, Chapters 1 - 4: "Before Cuba"
SPECIAL GUEST: From Havana via New York: Ignacio Berroa ignacioberroa.com/
(not this year)
Week 3 September Overview of genres: Popular, folkloric,
classical, religious, secular.
READING: Part II, Chapters 5 - 11: "Colonial Cuba"
Week 4 September Spain, Africa, Arabia video: Routes of Rhythm, vols I, II, III (ongoing)
Week 5 October Europe vs. Africa The generic son complex, the rumba: guaguancó, yambú, colúmbia
Week 6 October Contradanza, Danza, Danzón, Charanga ex/ The Cuban Danzón, Its Ancestors and Descendents
READING: Part III, Chapters 12 -15: "Afro-Cuba"
Week 7 October Conga comparsa vs. Conga de Santiago ex/ Afro-Cuba anthology, Los Papines
Week 8 October Santería, Iyesá, Arará, Abakuá, Tumba Francesa, Palo videos: Sworn to the Drum, Hecho en Cuba
READING: Part IV, Chapters 16 - 18: "Insurgent Cuba"
Week 9 November HW1 due November 22
videos: Americas in Transition, ¡Cuba Va!
Week 10 November video: Cachao - Como Su Ritmo No Hay Dos
READING: Part V, Chapters 19 - 28: "The Plattist Republic"
Week 11 November (Reading Break) Video
Journal due November 29
READING: Part VI, Chapters 29 - 32: "The Plattist Republic"
Week 12 November In-class presentations/FINAL
PROJECTS
READING: Part VII, Chapters 33 - 36: "The Auténtico Years "
December X, 2013 FINAL EXAM
--------------------Videos-------------------------
(a subset of the following):
*Routes of Rhythm
Americas in Transition
*¡Cuba Va!
*Cachao: Como tu Ritmo No Hay Dos (produced by Andy Garcia)
The Cubans
The Divine Horsemen
Mr. Kennedy and Mr. Krushchev
*The Greening of Cuba
*Sworn to the Drum
*Hecho en Cuba
*Maluala
Yo Soy del Son a la Salsa (Ariel)
*¡Afrocubanismo! Documentary
*¡Afrocubanismo! Master classes (Natalia Bolivar, Chucho Valdés, Changuito, Angá, Richard Egües, et alia).
*Conjunto Folklórico Nacional de Cuba
*Nigerian Batá ensemble
*The Cuban Danzón, rumba, comparsa (ICAIC tapes, Instituto Cubano de Actores...)
*Pelladito Percussion Tutorial
*Buena Vista Social Club
*Los Van Van: Live at Miami Arena
(* = from Schloss' collection)
---------------------Musical Styles------------------------
Rumba (yambú, guaguancó, columbia)
Santería
Abakuá
Arará
Bantú
Tumba Francesa
Bembé
Güiro
Palo Mayombe: Yuka, Makuta
El Mozambique
Conga comparsa
Conga de Santiago
Danza
Danzón
Contradanza
Son
Son montuno
Controversias, décimas
Nueva Trova
Changüí
Charanga
Cha-cha-cha
Mambo
Música campesina
Guaracha
Bugalú
Pilón
Salsa
Songó
Timba
------------Other mportant terms---------------
Lucumí
Ifá
Orishas: Elegua, Oyá, Ogún, Yemayá, Ochún, Changó, etc.
akpwón
babalawo
Patakín
pregón
la diana
el abanico
el cinquillo
-----------from Fernando Ortiz Los Instrumentos de la Música Afrocubana-------
El acheré y los chekere (shékere)
Las tumbas, tumbao, tumbadora
La marímbula
Las cucharas, las sartenes, el cencerro, los agogó
Los tambores ñáñigos
Los tambores batá: iyá, itótele, okónkolo
El ekón
La clave
Tambores de rumba: El quinto, el llamador, el taburete
Tambores de las comparsas carabalíes
La paila
Los timbales criollos
El bongó
El catá, El cajón
El ékue
La yuka
Las maracas
El guayo o la ralladera
La quijada
conga
tres -- three double-courses
originally tuned to D-F-A
(D minor) or G-C-E (C major) or D-G-B P4/M3 double-courses: 8ve/unison/8ve
----------others------------
Important composers and Cuban ensembles (partial list):
Folkloric:
Los Muñequitos de Matanzas
Conjunto Folklórico Nacional
Los Papines
Clave y Guaguancó
Yoruba Andabo
Grupo Afrocuba
Regino Jiménez, Grupo Ilú Añá
Merceditas Valdés
Afrocuban jazz:
Chucho Valdés
Grupo Irakere
Gonzalo Rubalcaba
Ernán López Nusa
Hilario Durán
Emiliano Salvador
Frank Emilio
Peruchín
Orlando Valle (Maraca)
Changuito
Angá
Popular:
Grupo Vocal Sampling
Son 14
NG La Banda
Orquesta Ritmo Oriental
Orquesta Original de Manzanillo
Ignacio Piñero y Septeto Nacional
Arcaño y sus Maravillas
El Compay Segundo
Grupo Sierra Maestra
Buena Vista Social Club
Orquesta Aragón
Richard Egües
Arsenio Rodriguez
Benny Moré
Pérez Prado
Bola de Nieve
Ernesto Lecuona
Classical:
Amadeo Roldán
Alejandro Caturla
Ignacio Cervantes
Leo Brouwer
--------others -----
Mongo Santamaria
Francisco Aguabella
Chano Pozo (Dizzy Gillespie)
Arturo Sandoval
Paquito d'Rivera
----- salsa----------
Tito Puente
Rubén Blades
Eddie Palmieri
Willie Colón
Orquesta de la Luz (Tokyo)
Larry Harlow
Ismael Rivera
Gloria Estévan/Eddie Palmieri copyright infringement "Oye Mi Canto" (tape sent by her lawyer)
Eddie Palmieri/Muñequitos copyright example "Conga Yambumba" by Jesús Alfonso
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www.descarga.com
Descarga Catalog:
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Excellent CD's
available in stores, or via Descarga catalogue:
Chucho Valdés: Solo Piano / Blue Note
¡Cuba Sí! / Rhino Records
Lázaro Ros con Mezcla / Intuition Records
Cuban Jam Sessions (Cachao y su Ritmo Caliente) / Panart
Cachao: Master Sessions, Volumes 1 and 2 CineSon / Epic
Cuarto Espacio / Aché
El Inigualable Bola de Nieve / EGREM
La Cubanisima: Orquesta ARAGON / EGREM
Son de Cuba / EGREM
Tambores Cubanos: Los Papines / EGREM
La Isla de la Música / Magic Music (Spain)
Buena Vista Social Club / World Circuit
Introducing Rubén González / World Circuit
Romantic Cuban Works for Piano/ Sergio Alejandro, piano / Centaur CRC 2341
Leo Brouwer The Complete Guitar Works Vol.1 / GHA 126.040
un dia de noviembre, Costas Cotsiolis, guitar
Africando (three volumes) / Stern's Africa CD 1071
El Jazz Cubano: The Music of Cuba / World Pacific
La Charanga de Cuba / Milan Latino
Cuban Gold 2 / Qbadisc
Su Majestad "El Jiguero" / Maype US120
Hablar en Serio, etc. Inocente Iznaga (guajira)
Los Muñequitos de Matanzas:
Guaguancó/Columbia/Yambú / Vitral Records VCD277
Available in the library (among many others):
Cuban Counterpoint Rounder CD1078
Afro-Cuba: A Musical Anthology Rounder
Cuba, I am Time (boxed set w/ four CD's) Blue Jackal
Los Van Van: Songó Mango Records
Mongo Santamaria: Afro Roots Prestige
Pablo Milanés: Cancionero World Pacific
Sylvio Rodriguez: Greatest Hits Luaka Bop/Warner
Grupo Vocal Sampling: Una Forma Más Sire Records
Conjunto Folklórico Nacional de Cuba Bembé Records
Carnaval in Cuba Smithsonian/Folkways
The Cuban Danzón Smithsonian/Folkways
Santana's greatest hits Columbia/Dist. by CBS
Available in the music office (for sale):
Grupo Ilu Aña: Sacred Rhythms of Cuba Fundamento Pdns.
¡Afrocubanismo! at Banff Fundamento/Bembé
Good books:
John Storm Roberts The Latin Tinge
John Storm Roberts Black Music of Two Worlds
Rebeca Maleón The Salsa Guidebook
Rebeca Maleón 101 Montunos
Murphy Joseph M Santería: An African Religion In America
Gonzalez Wippler Migene Santería Experience.