Puerto Rican Pioneers in Jazz, 1900–1939: Bomba Beats to Latin Jazz
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| Rating | : | 4.77 (953 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1491747714 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 312 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2015-02-05 |
| Language | : | English |
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About the AuthorBasilio Serrano is originally from Puerto Rico. Educated in New York, he holds a PhD in curriculum and instruction from New York University. He has been a faculty member at Brooklyn College and the State University of New York College at Old Westbury. He has published numerous articles in journals and trade magazines in the United States and Puerto Rico, with a focus on the Latin American immigrant experience in education and acculturation and the world of American music.
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He has been a faculty member at Brooklyn College and the State University of New York College at Old Westbury. Basilio Serrano is originally from Puerto Rico. He has published numerous articles in journals and trade magazines in the United States and Puerto Rico, with a focus on the Latin American immigrant
Serrano explores how the music of Puerto Rico helped to shape them and offers a comprehensive review of the bands in which they played, studying specialists in a variety of instruments as well as band leaders and composers. Covering a period from 1900 to 1939, Puerto Rican Pioneers in Jazz, 1900–1939 presents the stories of early Puerto Rican jazz musicians whose contributions to the genre have previously been overlooked.. This group included notable figures such as Fernando Arbello, the Bayron sisters, the Rivera family, Louis King Garcia, Joe Loco, Juan and Paco Tizol, Augusto and Willie Rodriguez, Augusto Coen, and Cesar Concepcion. In this study, author Basilio Serrano provides a detailed look at the lives of these men and women and their contribut