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Cortijo's Wake / El Entierro de Cortijo

Cortijo's Wake / El Entierro de Cortijo

Rodríguez Juliá, Edgardo
Flores, Juan

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ISBN10: 0822332035
ISBN13: 9780822332039
Publisher: Duke University Press
Published: Dec 30 2003
Pages: 152
Weight: 0.95
Height: 0.70 Width: 5.60 Depth: 8.60
Language: English
A bilingual edition of a renowned work of Puerto Rican literature, Cortijo's Wake/El entierro de Cortijo is novelist Edgardo Rodríguez Juliá's vivid description of the funeral of legendary Puerto Rican musician Rafael Cortijo. El entierro de Cortijo became an immediate bestseller following its original publication in Puerto Rico in 1983. An unparalleled Afro-Puerto Rican percussionist and bandleader, Cortijo (1928-1982) revolutionized the country's musical culture. His band, Cortijo y Su Combo, captivated Caribbean and Latin American audiences as it emerged in the mid-1950s. Immensely popular across Puerto Rican social classes, the band both modernized the traditional vernacular forms of bomba and plena and forcefully reestablished their African and working-class roots. The group's innovations have been integral to salsa since the 1960s.

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