Cuba: Music and Revolution
- Original Album Cover Art of Cuban Music: The Record Sleeve Designs of Revolutionary Cuba 1960–85

Cuba: Music and Revolution - Original Album Cover Art of Cuban Music: The Record Sleeve Designs of Revolutionary Cuba 1960–85

Name: Cuba: Music and Revolution - Original Album Cover Art of Cuban Music: The Record Sleeve Designs of Revolutionary Cuba 1960–85
Brand: Soul Jazz Books
SKU: 9781916359802
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Book Edition
Release Date: 2/11/2020
Label: Soul Jazz Books

2CD Edition
Release Date: 22/1/2021
Label: Soul Jazz Records

* Deluxe 250-page large format hardback book compiled and edited by Gilles Peterson and Stuart Baker (Soul Jazz Records)

Spanning Cuban music from rumba to salsa, and graphic styles from socialist realist to geometric abstraction, this volume of Cuban record cover art traces a musical form in constant revolution.

The first ever book about Cuban record sleeve design, compiled by Gilles Peterson and Stuart Baker, Cuba: Music and Revolution features hundreds of rarely seen vinyl records from the start of the Cuban Revolution at the beginning of the 1960s up until 1985, when Cuba’s Special Period, brought about by the dissolution of the Soviet Union and the withdrawal of Russia’s financial support for the Cuban government, led to the demise of vinyl-record manufacturing in Cuba. The artwork here reflects both the cultural and musical depth of Cuba as well as the political influence of revolutionary communism.

Over the past century, Cuban music has produced a seemingly endless variety of styles―rumba, mambo, son, salsa―at a dizzyingly fast rate. Since the 1940s a steady stream of Cuban musicians has also made the migration to the US, sparking changes in North American musical forms: bandleader Machito set New York’s jazz and Latin scene on fire, and master drummer Chano Pozo’s entry into Dizzy Gillespie's group led to the birth of Latin jazz, to name just two.

After the Cuban Revolution in 1959, the new government closed American-owned nightclubs and consolidated the island’s recording industry under a state-run monopoly. Out of this new socialist agenda came new musical styles, including the Nueva Trova movement of left-wing songwriters. The 1980s saw more experimentation in modernist jazz, salsa and Afro-Cuban folkloric music.

Generously illustrated with hundreds of color images, Cuba: Music and Revolution presents the history of Cuban record cover art, including many examples previously unseen outside the island itself.

Book Edition 2CD Edition

1. Grupo Irakere – Chequere Son
2. Conjunto Rumbavana – El Son Del Campeon
3. Juan Formell & Los Van Van – Mi Ritmo Caliente
4. Grupo Monumental – Mi Son Caridad
5. Grupo de Experimentación Sonora del ICAIC – Sondeando
6. Las D'Aida – Con Cadencia y Con Dulzura
7. Juan Formell & Los Van Van – Y No Le Conviene
8. Pablo Milanés – Te Quiero Porque Te Quiero
9. Emíliano Salvador – Luna Wanestain
10. Los Reyes 73 – Un Lamento Hecho Cancion
11. Eduardo Ramos – Vocación Revolución
12. Grupo Mounmental – Hasta Las Cuantas
13. Los 5 U 4 – Solo Esta Musica
14. Grupo de Experimentación Sonora del ICAIC – Canción Con Todos
15. Orquesta Los Van Van – Yo Se Que Van Van
16. Grupo Monumental – Nadie Se Siente Cansado
17. Orquesta Ritmo Oriental – Maria, Baila El Son
18. Juan Pablo Torres y Algo Nuevo – Rompe Cocorioco
19. Los Reyes 73 – Grandes Amigos
20. Paquito D'Rivera – La Patica
21. Grupo de Experimentación Sonora del ICAIC – Grifo
22. Raúl Gómez – Dacapo
23. Grupo Irakere – Juana 1600

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