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LLILAS Faculty Book Series: Danzón: Circum-Caribbean Dialogues in Music and Dance

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Initially branching out of the European contradance tradition, the danzón first emerged as a distinct form of music and dance among black performers in nineteenth-century Cuba. By the early twentieth-century, it had exploded in popularity throughout the Gulf of Mexico and Caribbean basin. A fundamentally hybrid music and dance complex, it reflects the fusion of European and African elements and had a strong influence on the development of later Latin dance traditions as well as early jazz in New Orleans. Danzón: Circum-Caribbean Dialogues in Music and Dance studies the emergence, hemisphere-wide influence, and historical and contemporary significance of this music and dance phenomenon.

Professor Robin Moore (School of Music) and his co-author Alejandro Madrid (University of Illinois at Chicago) present their new book.

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Sid Richardson Hall
2300 Red River St.
Austin, TX 78712
https://www.utexas.edu/cola/insts/llilas/events/30450

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