Gilles Peterson, Stuart Baker

Cuba: Music and Revolution: Original Album Cover Art of Cuban Music: The Record Sleeve Designs of Revolutionary Cuba 1960-85

Herausgeber: Baker, Stuart; Peterson, Gilles

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Spanning Cuban music from rumba to salsa, and graphic styles from socialist realist to geometric abstraction, this volume of Cuban record cover art traces a musical form in constant revolution

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Soul Jazz Records
• Seitenzahl: 256
• Erscheinungstermin: 27. November 2020
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 302mm x 301mm x 26mm
• Gewicht: 2290g
• ISBN-13: 9781916359802
• ISBN-10: 1916359809
• Artikelnr.: 59513055

Autorenporträt

Gilles Peterson is a BBC radio and worldwide club DJ and record collector supreme. He is the founder of the record label Brownswood Recordings, as well as Talking Loud and Acid Jazz, and founder of the radio station Worldwide FM. As a club DJ he first fell in love with latin music. In 2009, and for much of the following decade, Gilles Peterson was flying in and out of Cuba, recording and releasing new Cuban music under the Havana Cultura banner. Stuart Baker is the founder of the record label Soul Jazz Records and the publishing house Soul Jazz Books. Soul Jazz Records has released hundreds and hundreds of critically acclaimed albums in a multitude of genres. As a publisher Soul Jazz Books has released deluxe art books on Dancehall, Voguing, Punk, Disco and a number of Record Cover art books including Freedom, Rhythm and Sound, Bossa Nova and Disco. Stuart Baker has been collecting Cuban music for over 25 years. He first travelled to Cuba in 1994 to produce a series of albums for Soul Jazz Records and continues to trawl the streets of Havana for original Cuban vinyl whenever he is there.