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Charlie Hankin: “Caribbean Clave Poetics”
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Cuban musicologist and novelist Alejo Carpentier understood Cuban son from the 1920s and 1930s to represent Cuba’s most significant musical innovation, due to the way it codified the African-inspired, asymmetric 3 – 2 or 2 – 3 rhythmic timeline known as the clave. Clave subsequently became a predominant theoretical framework for Caribbean or “Latin” musicking, shaping popular genres such as merengue and salsa and influencing musical practices as ...
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1 dates (21 Nov - 21 Nov)
Nov
21
Thu
4:10 pm
University of California, Davis
San Jose, CA, United States
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