Cuba Music Week is a live and online effort – both crowd sourced and curated – to highlight the importance and beauty of Cuban Music. One goal is to introduce you to ideas and music from this vibrant culture. A good place to start is our databases, listing the Cuban recordings here at the ARC, and glossaries of genres and instruments. Just for fun have a look at the galleries of record covers. This site will remain active as an online resource to make this culturally significant body of work readily available to people around the globe for study and enjoyment.

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galleries

Some Cuban and America releases prior to the 1950s.  Click on any image to create a slideshow – makes reading the labels a lot easier.

cha cha cha

cha cha cha

81 Photos

mambo y rumba

mambo y rumba

36 Photos

10" Cuban discs

10" Cuban discs

27 Photos

souvenirs

souvenirs

10 Photos

Cuban LPs

Cuban LPs

100 Photos

today's horizontal picture from Havana

today's horizontal picture from Havana

19 Photos

almost Cuban

almost Cuban

16 Photos

Cuban Instruments

Cuban Instruments

9 Photos


all essays

  • Cuban Hip Hop
  • Diaz Top Ten + 6
  • Latunes
  • Manteca: A Story of Afro Cuban Jazz
  • The Rumba Scene
  • Who Sampled Who?

all galleries

  • 10" Cuban Discs
  • Almost Cuban
  • Cha Cha Cha
  • Cuban albums
  • Cuban Instruments
  • mambo y rumba
  • souvenirs
  • today’s horizontal picture from Havana

staff

• b.george - founder + director
• Fred Patterson - head archivist
• Alex Curtin - archivist

CUBA INTERNS + VOLUNTEERS
These folks did the tedious and important work of cataloging recordings, populating the links, sorting and re-sorting, data entry, the bulk of video harvesting and a great deal of the frantic last minute this-and-that.

• Manny Portillo
• Henry Bainbridge
• Jo-Ann Wong
• Harvey Ngai
• Nicholas Romaniello

ARC INTERNS + VOLUNTEERS 2016
These folks did everything else, freeing up time for us to work on Cuba Music Week.

• Brian Cummings
• Vincent Christopher
• James Desin
• Seth Schonberg
• James Ehrlich
• Joe Flynn

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