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Acknowledgments There are many people to recognize for their help in bringing this work to fruition. Thanks to my editor at the University of Michigan Press, Ellen Bauerle. Thank you to Kim Butler for opening doors and to Yvonne Daniel for her generous suggestions. Thanks to Barbara Polcyn, Laurie Marx, Carol Jacobson, Ed West, Vicky Veenstra, Bruce Mannheim, Jennifer Roberts, Janet Hart, Stuart Kirsch, Ifeoma Nwankwo, Judith Becker, Glenda Dickerson, Evans Young, Don Sims, Elizabeth James, Kevin Gaines, Rebecca Scott, Fernando Coronil, Kelly Askew, Maxwell Owusu, Conrad Kottak, and my mentor Ruth Behar at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. At California State University Monterey Bay, thanks to all of my colleagues in the Division of Humanities and Communication. Special recognition goes out to the students of my class “Afro Cuba Hip Hop: Music and Dance in the Black Atlantic” who read excerpts from this volume and were a sounding board for many of the ideas I present here. In Cuba, thanks to all my teachers and friends at the Center for the Investigation and Development of Cuban Music (CIDMUC), Olavo Alén, Liliana Casanella, and Raimundo Villaurrutia, and to the library staff, Tamara Sevila Salas, Eloisa Marrero Sera, and Sara Martínez Garc ía. At the Fundación Fernando Ortiz thanks to Miguel Barnet, Trinidad Pérez, María Teresa Linares, Jesús Guanche, Hildemar, and David. Thanks to Alberto Granado and Esther Pérez at La Casa de África. Modupe to Tomás Fernández Robaina. Mil amores to Nancy Morejón and thank you very much to Gloria Rolando. Thank you to Eduardo Rosillo, Jorge Petineaud, and Rolando Zaldívar. Gracias/thank you/muito obrigado to Carlos Moore. Thanks of course to all the musicians who shared their time and their tumbao with me: Fito Reinoso, Pancho Quinto, Carlos Aldama, Papo Angarica, Manolito Simonet, David Calzado and La Charanga Habanera , José Luis Cortés, Pedro Pablo and his Orquesta Rebambaramba, Paulito F.G., Cándido Fabré, Elio and Orderquis Revé, Angelito Bonne, Aramis Galindo, Yvette Porras from Orquesta D’talle, La Charanga Forever , Yoel Driggs, Pedro Fajardo, Mario “Mayito” Rivera, Boris Luna, Edmundo “Mundele” Pina, and Yenisel “Jenny” Valdés from Orquesta Los Van Van, Pedro Calvo, José Luis Quintana “Changuito,” César “Pupy” Pedroso, Lázaro Valdés and Bamboleo, Tirso Duarte, Luis Abreu Hernández of Los Papines, and Joaquin Betancourt. Gracias to Miriam Viant, my godmother, who taught me so much of Cuba, and to her son Francisco who brought me to her. Thanks to Alexis, Amor, Amexis, Anilexis, Aniel, Inocente, Ángela and Yvonne, el familión. Thank you to Haníbal, Maida y José, Armando, La China, El Moro y todos del barrio. xii Acknowledgments ...

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