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Son travels from Oriente to Havana

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The rural song form of eastern Cuba reaches the capital, carried west in part by soldiers of the Permanent Army, and there meets the clave of Havana rumba — the five-stroke asymmetric timeline that lets a whole ensemble lock without a conductor. The internal migration of a rural form to a capital with recording studios and a dance-hall economy is the same shape of movement that carried samba from Bahia to Rio and blues from the Delta to Chicago, and it happens in all three within about thirty years.

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  1. Story
  2. The rural song form of eastern Cuba reaches the capital, carried west in part by soldiers of the Permanent Army, and there meets the clave of Havana rumba — the five-stroke asymmetric timeline that lets a whole ensemble lock without a conductor. The internal migration of a rural form to a capital with recording studios and a dance-hall economy is the same shape of movement that carried samba from Bahia to Rio and blues from the Delta to Chicago, and it happens in all three within about thirty years.
  3. Knowledge
  4. Son cubano
  5. Havana
  6. Son travels from Oriente to Havana
  7. Connections
  8. Son cubano
  9. Havana
  10. Jazz
  11. Havana
  12. Son travels from Oriente to Havana
  13. The Middle Passage
  14. Son cubano
  15. New Orleans
  16. Son travels from Oriente to Havana
  17. Evidence
  18. Son originated among rural populations of Oriente with precursors including changüí, nengón and kiribá, moved to Havana around 1909 carried in part by Permanent Army soldiers, and adopted the clave there; the Cuarteto Oriental was founded by the tres player Ricardo Martínez in 1916, recorded in Havana in 1917 and became the Sexteto Habanero in 1920 with guitar, tres, bongó, claves, maracas and double bass. V55 verification basis: retrieved in search summary from general reference entries only; no Cuban musicological source, discography or archive was consulted, and this is the weakest sourcing in the pack.
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