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Timba: The Sound of the Cuban Crisis.(Book review)
Timba: The Sound of the Cuban Crisis. By Vincenzo Perna. (SOAS Musicology Series.) Burlington, VT: Ashgate Publishing, 2005. [ix, 338 p. ISBN 0-7546-3941-X. $114.95] Index, bibliography, illustrations, music examples.
Vincenzo Perna, a freelance music journalist with a Ph.D. in Ethnomusicology from the University of London (SOAS), has written a penetrating and deeply informative book on timba, the popular and provocative Cuban music and dance style that emerged in the 1990s, during the economic tailspin euphemistically referred to as "el periodo especial economico" (the special economic period). In Timba: The Sound of the Cuban Crisis, Perna presents timba as an ...
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