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An Analysis Of The Evolution Of Improvised Double Bass Solos In Afro-Cuban Jazz, Juan Manuel Monroy Romero
An Analysis Of The Evolution Of Improvised Double Bass Solos In Afro-Cuban Jazz, Juan Manuel Monroy Romero
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Afro-Cuban music and jazz have had a very close interaction since their origins. Both music styles are the result of the synthesis of West African and European music. Improvisation is one of the several commonalities that these two music styles share. This study provides jazz double bass students with the insight into the origins and characteristics of Cuban music pertinent to double bass and improvisation. It analyzes the vocabulary of improvised double bass solos as influenced by Cuban music. It presents a comparison of several improvised bass solos from different historical eras in order to identify the characteristics of the …
Escaping Isn't What It Used To Be: Review Of Ana Menendez's Adios, Happy Homeland!, Amy Letter
Escaping Isn't What It Used To Be: Review Of Ana Menendez's Adios, Happy Homeland!, Amy Letter
Anthurium: A Caribbean Studies Journal
Abstract: Ana Menendez’s latest collection of short stories, Adios, Happy Homeland! is a labyrinthine metafictional construction of cultural and literary references that responds to the appropriation of Cuban literature.
Tension Under The Sun: Tourism And Identity In Cuba, 1945-2007, John Andrew Gustavsen
Tension Under The Sun: Tourism And Identity In Cuba, 1945-2007, John Andrew Gustavsen
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My dissertation on Cuban tourism links political, economic, social, and cultural history to show how the development of tourism on the island between 1945 and 2007 has been crucial in helping to cultivate identities for Cuba and the Cuban people on multiple levels. I focus on three distinct periods - 1945 to 1958, 1959 to 1979, and 1980 to 2007. While significant shifts occurred within each of these three phases, this periodization best illuminates the relationship between tourism development and identity. The fall of the Soviet Union, for example, certainly altered the pace of the industry's growth. Arrivals soared beginning …
Cancer In The Florida Hispanic Diverse Populations, Paulo S. Pinheiro
Cancer In The Florida Hispanic Diverse Populations, Paulo S. Pinheiro
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Cancer afflicts 1.4 million people in the United States annually. In 2007, 45.5 million Hispanics were the largest and fastest growing minority in the US. Although treated as a homogeneous group, Hispanics are different from cultural, socioeconomic and genetic perspectives. The cancer experience of Hispanic subpopulations has, thus far, been poorly described. The present dissertation focused on the descriptive epidemiology of Cancer in Hispanics in the US. We created and validated an algorithm, the Hispanic Origin Identification Algorithm (HOIA), to improve the assignment of ethnicity and Hispanic subpopulation. We applied the HOIA to the Florida incident cancer data of the …
Cancer In The Florida Hispanic Diverse Populations, Paulo S. Pinheiro
Cancer In The Florida Hispanic Diverse Populations, Paulo S. Pinheiro
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Cancer afflicts 1.4 million people in the United States annually. In 2007, 45.5 million Hispanics were the largest and fastest growing minority in the US. Although treated as a homogeneous group, Hispanics are different from cultural, socioeconomic and genetic perspectives. The cancer experience of Hispanic subpopulations has, thus far, been poorly described. The present dissertation focused on the descriptive epidemiology of Cancer in Hispanics in the US. We created and validated an algorithm, the Hispanic Origin Identification Algorithm (HOIA), to improve the assignment of ethnicity and Hispanic subpopulation. We applied the HOIA to the Florida incident cancer data of the …