Illustrations  ix

Acknowledgments  xi

Introduction  1

1. Performing Anthology: The Mystical Qualities of Alfredo Rodríguez's Cuba Linda  43

2. "Una Escuela Rara": The Graciela School  93

3. Itinerant Outbursts: The Grunt of Dámaso Pérez Prado  131

4. Visual Arrangements, Sonic Impressions: The Cuban Musical Documentaries of Rogelio París and Sara Gómez  165

5. Cold War Kids In Concert  203

Notes  235

Bibliography  301

Index  319

"Listening in Detail is a singular and beautifully written account of Cuban music in the twentieth century. It is a simultaneously gentle and fierce rejoinder to the legacy of works that attempt to 'know' Cuban music, to pin it down for ethnographic examination or touristic consumption, to romanticize it and remove it from its contexts in everyday life. This is a passionate, hugely important work."—Gayle Wald, author of Shout, Sister, Shout! The Untold Story of Rock-and-Roll Trailblazer Sister Rosetta Tharpe

"Listening in Detail inhabits the socioaesthetic field of Cuban music, where study and performance animate one another. Aware that understanding requires immersion—in and against the grain of whatever accident or choice of birth/exile, vocation/profession—Alexandra T. Vazquez is an initiate, as we all should hope to be, in the inexplicable mystery of sound, and because she is open to the music's inscription, her detailed listening, her repeated play, cuts its own groove. Rigorously, lyrically, Vazquez delights and instructs, shows and proves, studies and performs."—Fred Moten, author of B Jenkins

"Polish your Cuban heels, and think outside the Victrola: Listening in Detail assembles the playlist of our dreams. Harlem, Havana, and New Orleans; Nancy Cunard and La Lupe; Graciela; anthologies, performances, jazz, and Cuban son. Roaming exiles will debunk all blockades, so let the entanglement of empires surrender to the grunt. This is a stunning book. It will keep you listening even when the music is over. If it ever, actually, is."—José Quiroga, author of Cuban Palimpsests

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