Dancing With Fidel (Waking Up in)
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Book Description
Sensual, sexual, soulful and rhythmic, Cuban music -- from its ethnic roots to the international successes of Gloria Estefan and the Grammy Award-winning Buena Vista Social Club -- has been the Cuban people's means of expression under one of the world's last communist regimes.
By talking to dozen's of ordinary Cubans and famous musicians about their daily lives, DANCING WITH FIDEL paints an extraordinary picture of a society and its cultural history that has flourished through music, despite communist repression and western intransigence. The result is an honest, entertaining and informative account of what anyone traveling to the island can expect to find.
About the Author
Stephen Foehr has made a career out of being curious. He has spent years traveling around the world asking, Why? Why not? What? Who did that? How come? Is that true? and writing about the answers. He has been a teacher in Ethiopia, a crewmember on a sailboat in the Mediterranean, a contruction worker in Sweden, a movie extra in Japan, a copywriter in Hong Kong, a witness in Vietnam, a smuggler in India, a layabout in Malaysia, and a police reporter and journalist in the United States. He is the author of four books and numerous articles for national and international publications.
Foehr grew up in the small farm town of Carthage, Illinois, and while he was supposed to be studying Latin in the high-school library, he secretly read books of Richard Halliburton, whose adventures fired his ambition to explore the world. He attended Regis College (now University) in Denver, Colorado, and got his first taste of foreign travel while a student at Loyola University of Rome. After earning a college degree and serving in the Peace Corp, he became a travel writer to support his curiosity habit. He has lived and worked in 88 countries and now lives in Boulder, Colorado, with his 13-year-old son, Lucian.
Dancing With Fidel (Waking Up in),Stephen Foehr,Sanctuary Publishing, Ltd.,1860743463,1959-,20th century,Cuba,Cuban music,Dance - General,General,History and criticism,Music,Performing Arts,Social life and customs,Places & peoples: general interest
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