Cuba and the USA - A Musical Journey with Prof. Fernando Hernandez

Cuba and the USA- A Musical Journey

Since the 19th century Cuban music has been hugely popular and influential throughout the world. If you listen, you will hear traces in the tracks of pop, jazz, funk, rock, R&B and other genres of music so many of us listen to.

Professor Fernando (Fernan) Hernandez willl discuss how Cuban music has permeated the mainstream American music, particularly jazz, its rich history and the eras the impacted American Culture the most since the 30's with the popular cha cha cha, conga, and the rumba.