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July 5, 2024 64 mins

Anthropologist and prolific scholar Umi Vaughan, author of Rebel Dance, Renegade Stance: Timba Music and Black Identity, joins Rebecca to speak about his 25 years of research on timba and how the genre has changed in the past three decades. Vaughan has been conducting research in Brazil more recently, and will soon be publishing a book on the repression of Afro-Brazilian religious practice and music.

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La bola, Manolín El Médico de la Salsa
De La Habana, Paulo FG
No estamos locos, David Calzado y Charanga Habanera
Mi medicamento, Havana D' Primera
La chica del escenario, Havana D' Primera

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