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Cuba and Its Music: From the First Drums to the Mambo.(Cuban Music from A to Z)(Cubano Be, Cubano Bop: One Hundred Years of Jazz in Cuba)(Divine Utterances: The Performance of Afro-Cuban Santeria)(Book Review)

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Cuba and Its Music: From the First Drums to the Mambo. By Ned Sublette. Chicago: Chicago Review Press, 2004. [xv, 672 p. ISBN 1-55652-516-8. $36.00.] Illustrations, index, bibliography.

Cuban Music from A to Z. By Helio Orovio. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2004. [xi, 235 p. ISBN 0-8223-3212-4. $24.95.] Illustrations, appendices, bibliography.

Cubano Be, Cubano Bop: One Hundred Years of Jazz in Cuba. By Leonardo Acosta. Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Books, 2003. [xvi, 288 p. ISBN 158834147X. $29.95.] Index.

Divine Utterances: The Performance of Afro-Cuban Santeria. By Katherine J. Hagedorn. Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Institution Press, ...

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