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Close ✕Havana
The Caribbean port that functioned for four centuries as the hinge of the Spanish Atlantic and, in the twentieth, as the place where Cuban rural forms were professionalised, recorded and…
23.1, -82.4 · approximate · founded in the 16th century; the musical period of interest is c. 1850–1950
On the world
- A place in: Music Across Continents · 7 places
- Joined to: Havana — New Orleans · 2 places
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Connections
- is travelled to of Son cubano — The rural form of Oriente reached the capital around 1909 and there acquired the clave of Havana rumba.
- connected to New Orleans — Continuous Gulf shipping and touring traffic between the two ports carried habanera, danzón and son into New Orleans dance music through the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.
- is transported to of The Middle Passage — Havana was the principal Cuban port of the Spanish Atlantic and a major point of disembarkation, drawing heavily on West-Central Africa and the Bight of Benin.
Mission history61 missions · 1959 → 2026 · 2 planned
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