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Title: Needs a Volume 2
Review: Noooo!!! Just when I was really enjoying this fabulously detailed history of Cuban music, it cut off in the early 1950s. It's not a short book, but Sublette packs in lots of history and music in this terrific musical history. Read about the major (and very minor) figures in Cuban music, with excellent discussions of innovations that bumped music up another notch. There's way too much on the front end (Phoenician music, really?), but the book really kicks into gear when it hits the 20th century. I hope that Mr. Sublette is working on the second volume of this history. As I read, I listened to the artists he was writing about. I recommend that to anyone picking up this really fascinating book.
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