My Havana : : The Musical City of Carlos Varela / / Maria Carida Cumana, Karen Dubinsky, Xenia Reloba de la Cruz.
For more than thirty years, musician Carlos Varela has been a guide to the heart, soul, and sound of Havana. One of the best known singer-songwriters to emerge out of the Cuban nueva trova movement, Varela has toured in North America, the Caribbean, Latin America, and Europe. In North America, Varel...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Toronto : : University of Toronto Press, , [2018] ©2014 |
| Year of Publication: | 2018 |
| Language: | English |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (312 p.) |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Foreword
- Introduction: Varela's Musical City
- Chapter One. Carlos Varela: The Distinguished Son of William Tell
- Chapter Two. The Persistence of "Memorias"
- Chapter Three. "Politics Don't Fit in a Sugar Bowl" Cuba in the 1990s through the Music of Varela
- Chapter Four. Carlos Varela and the Carousel of Cuban History
- Chapter Five. A Singer Who Uses the Guitar as a Camera: The Cinematic Quality of Carlos Varela's Songs
- Chapter Six. Singing the Cityscape: Varela as Urban Chronicler
- Chapter Seven. Carlos Varela, Protest Song, and Cuban Music History
- Epilogue. Carlos Varela: A Cuban Who Knows the Past but Can Also See the Future
- Beginning a New Cuban Dream: An Interview with Carlos Varela
- Appendix. Lyrics of Varela's Recorded Songs
- Bibliography
- Contributors' Biographies
- Index