Authors
Radamés
GIRO
Santiago de Cuba, 1940 - Santiago de Cuba, 2022
Genre: Essays
Researcher, guitarist and editor. National Prize of Edition in 1999. Member of the UNEAC. Today he is considered one of the most diligent investigators of Cuban music. He devoted more than thirty years to the creation and publication of an Encyclopedic Dictionary of Cuban music (2007 and 2009). He has collaborated in important Cuban publications. Author, among others, of the books: Leo Brouwer and the guitar in Cuba (1986), Heitor Villa-Lobos: an American sensibility (1990), Panoramic view of the guitar in Cuba (1997), The filin of César Portillo de la Luz (2001) and Cuban popular music. Brief history through genres and other rhythms (2007). In 2002 he won the Annual Cultural Research Award Juan Marinello. His texts have been included in several Cuban anthologies and periodicals.
For anyone interested in Cuban music, here you will find the information corresponding to all its creators, whether composer or interpreter (in the first case accompanied by a “Catalog” of personal works), definitions of genres, main groups, foreign musicians who performed in Cuba, the publications, the most notable theaters, and something very important, the sources to corroborate all this encyclopedic universe. The result of a hard work of research and collection, which has not been alien to the analysis and assessment, this work represents a valuable contribution to the repertoire of existing titles on music and musicians of Cuba.
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