Cuban Counterpoint: Tobacco and Sugar

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Cuban Counterpoint: Tobacco and Sugar

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Also known as: “Contrapunteo cubano del tabaco y el azúcar”

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In Fernando Ortiz
…tabaco y el azúcar (Cuban Counterpoint: Tobacco and Sugar), an interpretation of the island’s culture through its two principal products, and in the 1950s he contributed two more decisive volumes: La africanía de la música folklórica de Cuba (1950; “The Africanness of Folkloric Cuban Music”) and Los bailes y…
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