Robin Moore is an Associate Professor in the School of Music at the University of Texas at Austin. He has received awards including fellowships from the Rockfeller Foundation, the MacArthur Foundation, and the National Humanities Center. His written work includes Nationalizing Blackness: afrocubanismo and artistic revolution in Havana, 1920-1940 (University of Pittsburgh Press, 1997) and articles in the Latin American Music Review, Cuban Studies, Ethnomusicology , Encuentro de la cultura cubana, and other journals and book anthologies. His newest book, Music and Revolution (University of California Press, 2006) concerns musical performance in Cuba after 1959.
New Tracks from the Sextet
Maria Teresa - an original arrangement of an obscure son from the 1920’s, this track has fast become one of the favorites in the Conjunto 23 repertoire. The lyrics and rough melodic structure come from Sexteto Boloña’s “A La Cuata Co y Co,” among the first sones to be recorded. This version features the new formation of Conjunto 23, with Orlando Fiol on vocals and congas, and Tim Thompson on trumpet.
