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Rites of Rhythm: The Music of Cuba
By: Jory Farr
Price: $9.98
Publisher: William Morrow: August 2003
Seller ID: 256779
ISBN: 0060090308
Binding: Hardcover
Condition: Used - VeryGood
In the weeks just before carnival, a kind of fevered delirium seizes Santiago. Massive papier-ma che figures known as mun econes must be readied, masks made, costumes and capes created with feathers, rabbit skins, beads, and glass. Songs have to be rehearsed, dances perfected, complex choreography synchronized, for carnival, an explosion of rhythm, song, and spirit meant to lure every sentient being into its swirling vortex, is a fierce competition as well as an unfolding of sensual dementia.
-- from "Rites of Rhythm
-- from "Rites of Rhythm
The music of Cuba is primordial and poetic: steeped in sex, drenched ...
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