Dr. Andrew Schloss

Office: MacLaurin A177 Local: 721-7931
Office hours: Weds 4:30-5:30 pm or by appointment (call to confirm)
Classes: MacLaurin A168 Tues, Weds, Fri 11:30 am - 12:20 pm

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.

Cassettes 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 (perfoming) 35%
Final exam (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 January Introduction to class: overview, panorama of musical examples, introduction to clave.

Week 2 January What is Ethnomusicology?, vergleichende Musikwissenschaft , prescriptive vs. descriptive notation
READING: Part I, Chapters 1 - 4: "Before Cuba"

Week 3 January Overview of genres: Popular, folkloric, classical, religious, secular.
READING: Part II, Chapters 5 - 11: "Colonial Cuba"

Week 4 January Spain, Africa, Arabia video: Routes of Rhythm, vols I, II, III (ongoing)

Week 5 February Europe vs. Africa The generic son complex, the rumba: guaguancó, yambú, colúmbia

Week 6 February Contradanza, Danza, Danzón, Charanga ex/ The Cuban Danzón, Its Ancestors and Descendents
READING: Part III, Chapters 12 -15: "Afro-Cuba"

Week 7 February Conga comparsa vs. Conga de Santiago ex/ Afro-Cuba anthology, Los Papines

Week 8 February 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 February HW1 due March 3 videos: Americas in Transition, ¡Cuba Va!

Week 10 March video: Cachao - Como Su Ritmo No Hay Dos
READING: Part V, Chapters 19 - 28: "The Plattist Republic"

Week 11 March (Reading Break) Video Journal due March 28

Week 12 March In-class presentations/FINAL PROJECTS
READING: Part VI, Chapters 29 - 32: "The Plattist Republic"

Week 13 March In-class presentations, Review
READING: Part VII, Chapters 33 - 36: "The Auténtico Years "

April 20, 2006 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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TO ORDER CDS, TAPES, BOOKS, VIDEOS:

www.descarga.com

Descarga Catalog:

328 Flat Bush Ave. Suite 180

Brooklyn, NY 11238 U.S.A.

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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:

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

Una Forma Más? Grupo Vocal Sampling     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:

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

Murphy Joseph M Santería: An African Religion In America

Gonzalez Wippler Migene Santería Experience.