Cuban Music from A to Z

Originally published in Spanish in 1981, as Diccionario de la Musica Cubana, with a second, Spanish‐language edition in 1992, this is the first work in which the music of Cuba and its musicians appear in a reference format.

In her Foreword, writer and broadcaster Sue Steward, author of Salsa, describes Helio Orovio's dictionary as “one of the last non‐electronically assisted works of such a scale”, begun before internet and e‐mail lightened the chores of research and compilation. Conceived in the course of his work at the Institute of Ethnology and Folklore of the Cuban Academy of Sciences, historian...