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Beyond the Archive: The Cabrera-Tarafa Collection of Afro-Cuban Music, circa 1956: About This Site.

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  1. Beyond the Archive: The Cabrera-Tarafa Collection of Afro-Cuban Music, circa 1956
  2. An Introduction to the Collection
  3. Música de los cultos africanos en Cuba (Music of the African Cults in Cuba): The Liner Notes
    1. Oro. Marcos Portillo Domínguez [Até Borá] and ensemble.
    2. Rezos. Fernando Hernández, Inés Sotomayor, and Domingo Hernández.
    3. “Guarachitas” para los Orishas (Instrumental Batá Drumming). Miguel Santa Cruz, Gustavo Díaz, and Juan González.
    4. Songs for Osain. Cándido Martínez, Baba orisha from Havana.
    5. Oro. Inés Sotomayor and Ensemble.
    6. Oro de Tambores (Batá Drum Instrumental Oro). Miguel Santa Cruz, Gustavo Díaz, and Juan González.
    7. Oro (Batá Drums with Chorus). Cándido Martínez, Antonio Alberiche, chorus, and the Batá drums of Miguel Santa Cruz and Juan González.
    8. Moforibale. Palo Gangá Ñongobá. Cantos de Palo. Congo Musunde and Gangá. Florinda Pastor, Agustín Diago, and ensemble.
    9. Oro. Silvino Baró, M. Catalá, S. Rodríguez, R. Viart.
    10. Mayimbi. Toque de Palo. Silvino Baró, Martín Catalá, Sergio Rodríguez, and Rodolfo Viart.
    11. Canto Lucumí. Silvino Baró, Martín Catalá, Sergio Rodríguez, and Rodolfo Viart.
    12. Cantos Arará. Silvino Baró, Martín Catalá, Sergio Rodríguez, and Rodolfo Viart.
    13. Rezos. Petronila Hernández.
    14. Babaluayé. A. Alberiche.
    15. Bembé & Tambores (Instrumental Drumming). Domingo Hernández, Marcelo Carreras, Ángel Rolando, and Domingo Hernández, hijo. Tambores and guataca.
    16. Oro. Alberto Yenkins (Yin) and ensemble.
    17. Itutu. Fernando Hernández and ensemble.
    18. Oro. Cándido Mártinez and ensemble.
    19. Congo and Gangá Songs. Florinda Diago and family.
    20. About This Site.

About This Site

This website is the result of David Font-Navarrete’s and Martin Tsang’s efforts to create an open-access digital platform for collaborative research on the Lydia Cabrera and Josefina Tarafa archives in the Cuban Heritage Collection.

This project began with a collaborative effort to create the first complete archival-quality digitization of the collection, facilitated by David Font-Navarrete among several archival institutions: the American Folklife Center at the Library of Congress, the Cuban Heritage Collection at the University of Miami, the Musée d’Ethnographie de Genève, and Smithsonian Folkways Recordings. Font-Navarrete’s initial work with the Música de los cultos collection was supported by generous grants from PSC-CUNY, the CUNY Research Foundation, the Gerald E. and Corinne L Parsons Fund for Ethnography Award from American Folklife Center at the Library of Congress, a Díaz-Ayala Library Travel Grant from the Cuban Research Institute at Florida International University, the Society for American Music’s Wayne Shirley Fellowship, and a PSC-CUNY grant from the City University of New York Research Foundation.

The first iteration of the website was created by David Font-Navarrete and Martin Tsang with crucial early support from US Latino Digital Humanities (USLDH) Grants-in-Aid program from Arte Público Press and the University of Houston. The USLDH provided generous funding, and the team provided tremendous training and support in digital humanities and continue to promote and provide a platform for a wealth of US Latino/a-based research and scholarship. Thank you: Dr. Gabriela Baeza Ventura, Dr. Carolina Villarroel, Dr. Linda Garcia Merchant, Dr. Lorena Gauthereau, and the entire team USLDH team.

Special thanks to Isabel Castellanos, Dan Sheehy, D.A. Sonneborn, Verónica González, Alda Allina Migoni, Madeleine Leclair, Luis Bran and El Almacén, Juan Antonio Villanueva, and Amanda Moreno.

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