What is Cuban cuisine? A delectable intermingling of Spanish, Portuguese, Arabian, Chinese, and
African culinary traditions—a true melting pot of all the influences that combine in Cuban culture.
Phil Maturano - Afro Cuban Drumming for The Drumset
Language: English | DVD-Video PAL 720x576 25 fps | AC3 192 Kbps 48 KHz | 4.35 GB Genre: eLearning
This DVD is the first instructional drum method to fully explain the theory and expertly demonstrate the techniques for adapting authentic Latin rhythms to the modern drumset. The remastered DVD begins with a discussion of the evolution and adaptation of Afro-Cuban percussion instruments to the drumset. Maturano shows how fundamental Mambo and Cha-Cha styles are played by the Afro-Cuban rhythm section. Then the drummer isolates each element of the ensemble, allowing viewers to see and hear the patterns played on the original instruments. Finally, Maturano illustrates the proper way to adapt each instruments sound and rhythm to the drumset.
VA - Mambo Cubano: The Golden Age Of Cuban Music 1940-1960 (2000) FLAC
EAC rip | 2CD | FLAC-image - Log - Cue | Scans | Release: 2000 | ~ 609 MB Genre: Latin Jazz | Label: Proper-RETRO
A rare double album from the quality series Proper-RETRO with 40 authentic recordings of Cuban Mambo hits. Tito Puente, Perez Prado, Xavier Cugat, Celia Cruz, Orquestra Aragon and other latin jazz legends, play their timeless hits. Full artwork and booklet inclosed. Enjoy a collector's gem in lossless.
Cuban Sugar Industry: Transnational Networks and Engineering Migrants in Mid-Nineteenth Century Cuba (FSN,Wupload,uploadstation,FSV,FJ)
Publisher: Pal Mac | ISBN 10: 0230111394 | 2011 | PDF | 278 pages | 6.8 MB
Technological innovation was central to nineteenth-century Cuba’s lead in world sugar manufacture. Along with steam-powered machinery came migrant engineers, indispensable aliens who were well rewarded for their efforts. These migrant engineers remained perennial outsiders, symbolic of Cuba's growing economic dependency, privileged scapegoats unconsciously caught up in the island's political insecurities. This book tells the story of a group of forgotten migrant workers who anonymously contributed to Cuba's development and whose experience helps illuminate both the advance of the Cuban sugar industry and the processes by which the island was bound into global commodity-driven networks of control, dependency, and resistance.
Aviva Chomsky, "A History of the Cuban Revolution (Viewpoints / Puntos de Vista)"
Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell | ISBN 10: 1405187743 | 2010 | PDF | 224 pages | 1.8 MB
VA - Cuban Gold: The Essential Cuban Music Collection (2010)
Release: 2010 | Track: 45 (3CD) | Format: MP3 CBR 320 Kbps | Size: 450 MB Genre: World, Latin American | Label: Metro | Cat No: METRTN027
Presenting 3CDs and a 24 page book from the best Cuban music catalogue in the world! We’ve selected over three hours of classic tracks from Cuba’s largest record label, Egrem, the authentic gems from the original artists… the real sound of Cuba!