Afro-Cuban

The migration of Caribbean/Afro-Cuban music to the USA took place in the 20th century when a large arrival of Puerto Ricans and Caribbean islanders went to New York City and by 1960 the number of Puerto Ricans and people from the Caribbean totaled about 1.5 million due to the level of Caribbean immigration picked up after the United States entered World War II in 1941. Almost 50,000 Caribbean’s both black and white settled in the country between 1941 and 1950. They took advantage of the rapidly expanding war economy and postwar economic growth. Beginning in 1943, thousands of migrant workers were brought from the region to work in American agriculture and help the war effort. Cuban migrants were running out of Cuba because of Fidel Castro taking…

Afro Cuban Jazz, now known as Latin Jazz umbrellas a wide range of music including the following. Obsesión by David Sánchez, Tumbao para los congueros di mi vida by Al McKibbon, Alma de Santiago by Jane Bunnett, Nocturne by Charlie Haden and About the Monks by Dafnis Prieto, are a diverse collection of recordings which all fall under Latin Jazz. In the early 21st century Latin Jazz had become one of the most diverse styles in the world of Jazz. But it didn’t just happen at the click of a…

that wants to preserve the music of Pre-Revolutionary Cuba and make sure it isn’t forgotten. They want to share their heritage and experiences with this historical Cuban music. Conjunto Philadelphia recently performed at the Temple Performing Art Center. Through Conjunto Philadelphia’s concert they represented Cuba and its past using their performance as a medium to allow…

Our culture dictates many parts of our lives, whether it be through conscious understanding or through subconscious ritual and belief. For some, their culture defines who they are fundamentally. Alice Walker, in her short story “Everyday Use”, uses the differing mindsets of two sisters to explore African-American culture in rural America. Also explored is how heritage, reflected in where and when one grows up, interacts and affects culture. Although Mama raised both sisters the same way, they…

Afros directly challenged the traditional ideal of beauty that devalued natural black features. Afros and Black power contradicted the more acceptable straightened styles that black women had been conditioned to wear for decades. Because this white aesthetic historically represented the norm for beautiful hair, afros represented its direct opposite. And because hair is something that can be seen and read immediately, especially if it does not meet mainstream standards, afros brought the politics…

“Black Is Beautiful”: Social Politics Surrounding the Afro Research Question: To what extent did the ‘Black-Is-Beautiful’ Movement of the 1960’s promote black expression and further debates regarding ‘natural hair’? Background In order to facilitate an understanding of the perspective of George S. Schuyler, the “skeptical Negro” who “debunks natural hair” and criticizes “Black is Beautiful” in the project’s main Special Collections source, it is first important to establish key information…

Black is Beautiful. With this declaration of Black pride, the Afro, which was popularized by Angela Davis, became the emblem of Black Power and Black self-love. It is through the creation and the expansion of the Afro hairstyle that Black hair became politicized as a tool of resistance against white hegemony and the overarching threat of White supremacy. With the rise of the Black Power Movement and the spread of the Natural Hair Movement came the push for less straightened hair, as it was an…

(Cartwright 2016). Other Celebrities like Bianca Jagger influenced dress when it came to the pants suit for women. In a 1974 photo Bianca Jagger is seen wearing and Halston white pant suit. My informant, Cindy and her sister was photographed as well in an all-white pants suit that look very like Bianca Jagger’s (see Figure 3 & 4). Cindy distinctly remembers looking to celebrities like Donna Summer, Pam Grier, and Diana Ross for inspiration on how to wear her hair as well. Women like them in the…

In addition, I have attended a number of lectures and dialogues on race, cultural divides, and diversity that have provided me with the correct terminology to discuss, analyze, and keep up with the demanding nature of the IFP program. The International Field Program is extremely unique: I would take classes with leading Cuban intellectuals, gain an alternative view point on concepts that I gained from the perspective of neoliberalism, and I will share the classes with Cuban students, a rare…

building successful and enduring relations between both countries. Economic development: The economic development in Cuba is a tense situation. This is nothing new, Cubans have experienced power cuts in Havana; which resulted in the use of oil lamps to light their homes. And also they were reduced to walking and/or bicycling miles to work because there was no gasoline. Cuba’s economy has only grown just by one percent in the first six months of the year of 2016. Economic development demonstrates…