On Cuban music at the International Book Fair

Several titles with the theme of Cuban music have been present in the 32nd edition of the Havana International Book Fair, which ends next Sunday, February 25, but then extends to the rest of the country.

Ediciones CIDMUC, which belongs to the Centro de Investigación y Desarrollo de la Música Cubana, brought to this fair Rumbas, songs and parranderos formats in Remediosby Erick González Bello and Juan Carlos Hernández; and The chants in Cuban Spiritism: A view from its practices in Havanaby Mercedes Lay Bravo.

In addition to these proposals Musicalísima. Beatriz Márquez, a trip of memories, by Jaime Masó, published by Eiciones Cubanas de ArtexHave fun with the pianoby Martha Esquenazi and Hindira Mastrapa; Chamber Music: 19th Century Cubaby José Raúl López and Miriam Escudero; as well as the latest issue of Havana syncopationthe bulletin of the Cabinet of Musical Heritage Esteban Salas of the Office of the Historian of Havana.

For its part, Ediciones Icaic presents other of the main texts dedicated to Cuban music that are available in this edition of the event.

Titles such as Prisoner of Rock and Rollby Francisco López Sacha, co-published with Ediciones Unión; Trovar el cineby Carlos E. León; and Music in Cuban documentary filmsby José Loyola, are part of Icaic's literary proposal.

About his book, Francisco López Sacha explained that the best way to tell the origins and confirmation of rock was to divide it into stages and "make a progressive synthesis of each one of them".

In the meantime Trovar el cineby Carlos E. León, is a book of interviews with Cuban and Latin American poets, singer-songwriters and filmmakers, who offered their impressions about the trova movement in Cuba. The volume gathers conversations with figures such as Vicente Feliú, Noel Nicola, Alejandro García Villalón (Virulo), Manuel Argudín, Miriam Ramos, Rafael Rey, Augusto Blanca, Raúl Rodríguez, Margarita Mateo and Peruvian Miryam Quiñones. From the cinematographic field, the evaluations of actresses Isabel Santos and Corina Mestre, and Cuban editor and filmmaker Miriam Talavera appear.

Music in Cuban documentary filmsby José Loyola, addresses the subject through the work of three directors: Santiago Álvarez, Rogelio París and Rigoberto López.

The author of the text said that "Cuba is a sovereign musical power. However, paradoxically, documentaries and musical films are not abundant in our national cinematography".