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This text is part of the article “La Rumba de Pedro Pablo: de/reterritorialization of Cuban folkloric, traditional and popular practices in the Madrid music scene of the 21^st century” published in Spanish in the dossier “Abre la muralla: refracciones latinoamericanas en la música popular española desde los años ”, Celsa Alonso and Julio Ogas (coords.), in Cuadernos de Etnomusicología, Nº 13, , as a result of the Research Project I+D+i: “Música en conflicto en España y Latinoamérica: entre la hegemonía y la transgresión (siglos XX y XXI)” HARCP.

1The Cuban music scene in 21st century Madrid significantly differs from those years which marked the international boom of the Caribbean island’s music since the commercial phenomenon of Cuban salsa –also known as casino- and Cuban son. The following press chronicle of barely two decades past, reflects how the Cuban music of those years was at its peak in Madrid:

Madrid is experiencing a tropical, Antillean, and pleas

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Musico Cuba

The music of Cuba, including its instruments, performance and

dance, comprises a large set of unique traditions influenced mostly by
Music of Cuba
west African and European (especially Spanish) music.[1] Due to the General topics
syncretic nature of most of its genres, Cuban music is often Related articles
considered one of the richest and most influential regional musics of
Genres
the world. For instance, the son cubano merges an adapted Spanish
guitar (tres), melody, harmony, and lyrical traditions with Afro-Cuban Afro · Afro-Cuban jazz · Bakosó ·
percussion and rhythms. Almost nothing remains of the original native Bolero (filin) · Canción · Chachachá
traditions, since the native population was exterminated in the 16th · Charanga · Conga · Contradanza
century.[2] (habanera) · Criolla · Cubatón ·
Danzón · Descarga · Guajira ·
Since the 19th century Cuban music has been hugely popular and
Guaracha · Hip hop · Mambo ·
influential throughout the world. It has be