Audio Recording Guabina
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