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Guabina

About this Item

Title

  • Guabina

Names

  • Halpert, Herbert, 1911-2000 (Collector)
  • Halpert, Herbert, 1911-2000 (Speaker)
  • Pages, Art (Speaker)
  • Pous, Carols (Speaker)
  • Pages, Art (Performer)
  • Bermudez, Ramon (Performer)
  • Pous, Carols (Performer)

Created / Published

  • Ybor City, Florida

Headings

  • -  Cuban Americans
  • -  Cuban-Americans--Music
  • -  Songs
  • -  United States -- Florida -- Hillsborough County -- Ybor City

Genre

  • Songs

Notes

  • -  Ybor City, now a neighborhood within Tampa, was settled in 1886 by Cuban cigar manufacturers under the leadership of Vicente Martínez de Ybor. The cigar companies moved from Key West to avoid unionization of their workers.
  • -  The Cuban Club is a recreational society founded in 1899 by Cuban immigrants.
  • -  A typical Afro-Cuban song, introduced in Spanish by the singer and explained, in English, by pianist Art Pages.
  • -  As later translated by Art Pages, "The song that you have just heard Carlos Pous sing, it's sort of a Negro song. It's a Negro telling his girl not to mix with another tribe because he does not consider them as good as they are and he does not want to mix
  • -  Performance Note: "Guabina" (vocals with piano, drum and traps, and gourds) performed by Carlos Pous, vocals, Art Pages, piano, and Ramon Bermudez at Cuban Club, Ybor City, Florida, on June 21, 1939.

Medium

  • Sound disc : analog ; 12 in.

Call Number/Physical Location

  • AFC 1939/005: AFS 03145 B01

Source Collection

  • Herbert Halpert 1939 Southern States Recording Expedition (AFC 1939/005)

Repository

  • American Folklife Center

Digital Id

Online Format

  • audio

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Credit line

Please cite the source collection title, collection number, and repository, for example:

  • Resettlement Administration Recordings Collection (AFC 1939/016), American Folklife Center, Library of Congress
  • Stetson Kennedy and Robert Cook Florida WPA Recordings (AFC 1939/013), American Folklife Center, Library of Congress
  • Alton C. Morris Florida WPA recordings (AFC 1939/026), American Folklife Center, Library of Congress
  • Florida WPA Recordings, 1940 (AFC 1940/011), American Folklife Center, Library of Congress
  • American Folklife Center correspondence files, American Folklife Center, Library of Congress

Cite This Item

Citations are generated automatically from bibliographic data as a convenience, and may not be complete or accurate.

Chicago citation style:

Halpert, Herbert, Herbert Halpert, Art Pages, Carols Pous, Art Pages, Ramon Bermudez, and Carols Pous. Guabina. Ybor City, Florida, 1939. Audio. https://www.loc.gov/item/flwpa000048/.

APA citation style:

Halpert, H., Halpert, H., Pages, A., Pous, C., Pages, A., Bermudez, R. & Pous, C. (1939) Guabina. Ybor City, Florida. [Audio] Retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://www.loc.gov/item/flwpa000048/.

MLA citation style:

Halpert, Herbert, et al. Guabina. Ybor City, Florida, 1939. Audio. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, <www.loc.gov/item/flwpa000048/>.