The second largest city after Havana, Santiago is the most outstanding city of Cuba with lots of cultural groups having established here over the centuries, containing African, Chinese, French, Haitian, and Spanish. The blend of these cultures is shown in the lushness of the music and dance, many customs of which created in Santiago de Cuba, such as the Conga, Rumba, and Son (Salsa) (Cuba Group, 2005.) For what most represents the carnival are the congas, which can be overheard in many altered areas around the city. Common orchestras make their way to Santiago for the
Little Havana is one of Miami's most picturesque and beloved neighborhoods. It has some of the oldest and most historic buildings in Miami. Ever since the Cuban immigration started in the 60s the neighborhood became the home of many Cuban families, and later it was home as well for residents from Central y South America helping them to shape and reinforce the strong and proud Hispanic identity of the area. Walking by Calle 8 (8th street, the area's main drag) you always find either, around Domino Park or at El Exquisito or at El Pub restaurants or at any other business between SW 12th Ave and SW 17th Ave, people who by their charming personality or by their clothing or by their conversations always proudly display elements of their homeland,
Latin-America is rich for its culinary diversity, and these countries have their typical food. In Cuba there are many types of typical dishes, but the most famous is
Latin American music is a very popular form of music. Latin American music is a mixture of different cultures. The Latin American music is a mixture of different Latin areas countries such as Mexico, Central America, and portions of South America. It contains different blends from the Native American, African and European people.
Cuba is a bright and diverse community. Cuba's culture, a very authentic one, is vastly celebrated all throughout Cuba and many other parts of the Caribbean. With the countries large population of 11.27 million, there is a great amount of brightly colored homes, cars and businesses. This exciting environment also contains a lot of love, warmth, happiness and mystery. Although Cubans are very “out there” and “alive”, their culture contains great mysteries and Spanish legends as well. Many know Cuba for its contributing celebrities, some examples being Eva Mendes, Camryn Diaz, Soledad O’brien, Desi Arnaz, Christina Milan, and many more. Companioned by its great history, Cuba has beautiful sceneries that attract many tourist, which their hearts fall heavily for Cuba after aquatinted with this outstanding country.
Havana, La Habana in Spanish, is the largest city in Cuba, as well as the largest city in all of the Caribbean, and the capital city of Cuba. Havana is also the only major city in Cuba. Havana has a scenic waterfront and is surrounded by beaches.
The common cuban-american tradition of diners, lingering for hours followed by nostalgic storytelling of life back in cuba, have always intrigued me. Having never traveled to cuba,
Cuba is an beautiful island with vibrant art and soul stirring music and villages. From sugar canes to playing dominoes and baseball. Sugar canes, dominoes and baseball is extremely popular in Cuba. Cuba is the 17th largest island in the world and approximately 22% of the country is protected natural areas. Cuba also has 289 beaches and 200 bays but few large rivers or inland water regions. The country has nearly 200 small rivers as well as many narrow streams that run dry in summer. Cuba is the most populous island in the Caribbean and home to over 11 million residents but France is the most visited country in the world, with over 80 million visitors every year. The country is drained by dozens and dozens of rivers and white, sandy beaches
enjoy the mariachi and a variety of restaurants or bars that are built in old houses... There you can enjoy topical food as "la birria"
Cuba is no food paradise, so do not expect gourmet cuisine, but El Ajibe is famous for its special chicken
Cuban Café Boca Raton restaurant is been operating for 21 years. Lunch and dinner with great service are offered in their locations decorated with an essence of old Cuba. Its restaurants offer private parities and other services for small and big corporations. Overall, this organization has been successful and has been able to survive during difficult times. The management decisions and strong passion for the business is what makes their restaurants competitive in their local area.
Having looked at the emotional effect this music has on people, it is now worth looking at the specific churches within the Sydney diocese to get a greater understanding on a smaller level as to how the music is played and what effect it might have. To do this, there have been visits to said churches to see what goes on, this is like a large scale of the participant observation methodology. This was a very useful in developing an understanding for how different churches of the same denomination were going about music as part of the service. There is some clear information that has come out from attending these churches. Firstly, and worth noting, the churches run very similar services, across most of the churches the structure of songs is the
Last week Middle Tennessee State University ( MTSU) invited a professional Conjunto musician players. As a history class students we had to go and see their performance because Conjunto music is a traditional Mexican music. We had a lot of fun listening to their music and personally I would love to go again and listen to this music because this music is take you away back to the old Mexican music. Therefore, while you listening to this music, you feel like this music is talking to your soul.
When visiting Cuba, you will hear the drums and see the people dancing from the moment you wake up until you go to sleep. Cubans are known for their Afro-Caribbean music of salsa, cha-cha, son, rumba and many more different music styles influenced by both Spain and Africa. Cuban music is dance music, meaning that if you are planing to go to a Cuban nightclub be prepared to dance or move out of the dance floor.