The music of Cuba, including the instruments and the dances, is influenced by European (Spanish), American (Jazz), and African music. Most forms of the present day are creolized fusions and mixtures of these sources. Almost nothing remains of the original Indian traditions. Since the 19th century its music has been hugely popular and influential throughout the world. It has been perhaps the most popular form of world music since the introduction of recording technology.
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“So gladly, from the songs of modern speech
Men turn, and see the stars, and feel the free
Shrill wind beyond the close of heavy flowers,
And through the music of the languid hours,
They hear like ocean on a western beach
The surge and thunder of the Odyssey.”
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Charles Foster Kane: Yes—Dear Wheeler, You provide the prose poems, I’ll provide the war.”
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