"One often reads that the 1950s was the golden age of Cuban music, but it was really one long phase, from 1937 to 1958, each year with its own splendour."

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Source : Ned Sublette (2007). “Cuba and Its Music: From the First Drums to the Mambo”, p.433, Chicago Review Press

Ned Sublette

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