1a. At 4:41 what music did Cuban composers create to express their national identity? Describe the music and what it fused together.
1b. At 7:40 what was the first Cuban music recorded on phonographic cylinders in 1909 was known as?
1c. At 8:51 what is the name of the guitar that played the Cuban style of Son Cubano?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SWqvbY3XBuI&t=152s (Links to an external site.)
Tres guitar player explains Son Cubano (Links to an external site.)
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2. After watching the first minute or so of the two videos below, what is the basic difference between the Rumba and the Mambo?
Rumba (box step) (Links to an external site.)
Mambo (side step) (Links to an external site.)
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3. How did the Cuban actor and musician Desi Arnaz help the world via television come to eventually realize that América Latina está en todas partes (Latin America is everywhere)?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Desi_Arnaz (Links to an external site.)
https://youtu.be/ZfLldf0T3To (Links to an external site.)
Dezi Arnaz cue 3:20 conga (Links to an external site.)
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4a. What kind of Latin American elements does Cuban-born Camila Cabello integrate into her videos and songs?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iFPkd-7AcDM (Links to an external site.)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BQ0mxQXmLsk (Links to an external site.)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pkh8UtuejGw (Links to an external site.)
4b. How does her lead role in the 2021 film Cinderella prove the point that América Latina está en todas partes (Latin America is everywhere)?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T1NeHRuPpoM (Links to an external site.)
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5. How does seeing and hearing the Cuban cha-cha-cha throughout a 2019 skit on Saturday Night Live further prove the point that América Latina está en todas partes (Latin America is everywhere)?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MC6xjO1JoR8 (Links to an external site.)
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6. How does seeing and hearing a 2020 pandemic virtual Cuban-style charanga (music ensemble) at University of North Carolina further prove the point that América Latina está en todas partes (Latin America is everywhere)?
https://music.unc.edu/undergraduate/ensembles/charanga/ (Links to an external site.)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RcZEeS8cUF4 (Links to an external site.)
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7. How does seeing SJC Cuban professor Maria Isabel Alfonso’s friend Juan Carlos Formell and husband Ben Willis on bass further prove the point that América Latina está en todas partes (Latin America is everywhere)?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9i_d_qrEHPg (Links to an external site.)
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8. In the scene below from the film Dirty Dancing Havana Nights, how does Javier describe Cuban dancing to Katie?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vgce2giAm70 (Links to an external site.)
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9. In the scene below, how would you describe Katie’s curiosity of Javier as she watches him dance in the town square?
10. What kind of moves does Javier make as he interacts with others during the dancing?
1. As you listen to the narrator below at 1:30, what are the unique origins of the members of Anacaona, the historic 1932 all female Cuban charanga (traditional music ensemble)?
2. At 3:45, one of the members says that she thinks “life can be especially difficult for female musicians”. What does she say regarding “some men” who have the wrong ideas about working women, i.e. traditionally speaking, what roles in life do some men think are more appropriate for women?
3. How does hearing a woman say this in 1984 resemble much of the challenges women still face today in terms of gender inequality?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anacaona_(band) (Links to an external site.)
https://youtu.be/b1iv-hSs5TQ (Links to an external site.)
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4. How has the revival of Anacaona continued the “family” tradition?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=–9V8e2bDY0 (Links to an external site.)
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5. How are the members of the all female Cuban chamber orchestra Camerata Romeu like a family?
6. How is the camerata alike and different from the Anacaona charanga?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Camerata_Romeu (Links to an external site.)
Trailerhttps://youtu.be/k1SOQqetJbU
Full Film (sjc login) https://ez.sjcny.edu/login?url=https://video.alexanderstreet.com/watch/cuba-mia-portrait-of-an-all-woman-orchestraLinks to an external site.Links to an external site.
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click on El Cantante partial mp4
This is a biopic about the vocalizations of the Boricua singer ~ the Puerto Rican born singer, Héctor Juan Pérez Martínez (1946-1993). He performed under the name Héctor Lavoe ~ Héctor the voice, portrayed in the film by the Nuyorican singer ~ the New York born Puerto Rican singer, Marc Anthony. His wife, Nilda Georgina “Puchi” Román, is portrayed by Nuyorican singer Jennifer Lopez, aka J.Lo. (Marc and J.Lo. were married in real life from 2004-2014)
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1. In El Cantante, listen at 4:20 and 30:28; what words would you use to describe the singing style of Héctor Lavoe as portrayed by Marc Anthony; how do each of the songs compare?
2. At 7:40 when Héctor visits San Juan, Puerto Rico, kind of vocalizations do you hear?
3. At 21:22 when Puchi (J Lo) asks Héctor (Marc Anthony) what the first thing he is going to do when he gets famous, what orchestrations do you hear in the score?
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4a. As you listen to the real life Héctor Lavoe sing below at 0:26, how similar is his voice to Marc Anthony’s?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BNo0vkEYWRc (Links to an external site.)
4b. How does Pedro Martinez, the famous Dominican MLB pitcher, explain the lyrics and importance of El Cantante?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6TMLcqeeaMc (Links to an external site.)
4c. How would you describe the Latin jazz swing-style performance of El Cantante by Rubén Blades, the famous Panamanian musician and original composer of the song?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TLYcpQF_USQ (Links to an external site.)
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5. At 26:20 in El Cantante Iris Chacón appears on Hector’s television. What was one of her many nicknames?
6. As you watch Iris dance in the embedded video below, how might she have influenced what would later be called “twerking”?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iris_Chacón (Links to an external site.)
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7. How does Jennifer Lopez’s performance at the Presidential Inauguration further prove the point that América Latina está en todas partes (Latin America is everywhere)?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8s2DViOOElA (Links to an external site.)
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8. As you follow along with the lyrics and translation of Vivir lo nuestro (To Live Our Life), how would you describe the passionate singing of Marc Anthony and the Boricua singer India?
https://lyricstranslate.com/en/Vivir-Lo-Nuestro-Vivir-Lo-Nuestro.html (Links to an external site.)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EGo6d8h2hFE (Links to an external site.)
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