Cuban Rap and Rock in the 1990s: The Deborah Pacini Hernandez and Reebee Garofalo Collection
Scope and Contents
The Deborah Pacini Hernandez and Reebee Garofalo Collection of Cuban Rap and Rock in the 1990s contains interviews and live musical performances of a variety of musicians and producers prominent in the Cuban and Cuban American (e.g., Miami) rock, rap, and to a lesser extent fusion/world music scenes throughout the 1990s. The footage was collected during the anthropological fieldwork of scholars Deborah Pacini Hernandez and Reebee Garofalo. The collection contains audio, audiovisual, photographic, and paper documents, the latter of which include song lyrics and interview transcriptions.
Dates
- Creation: 1994 - 1999
Extent
2.5 linear feet50 audiocassettes
3 CD-Rs (audio)
16 videocassettes (VHS)
2 envelopes (loose paper notes)
1 binder (assorted photo slides)
1 box (photo prints and some discs with digital images)
1 folder (musical score (6pp.))
2 folders (assorted transparencies and papers with images and song lyrics)
Biographical / Historical
This collection contains original fieldwork materials donated by the scholars Deborah Pacini Hernandez and Reebee Garafalo. Deborah Pacini Hernandez' research has employed Latin/x American popular music as a lens for examining the complex relationships between expressive culture and socio-cultural changes activated by, and occuring at, the intersections of class, race, ethnicity, nationality, gender and generation.
Reebee Garofalo is Professor Emeritus at UMass Boston, where he taught for 33 years, and has been a musician, activist, and educator for as long as he can remember. As an activist and musician, Garofalo has spent years organizing and performing in progressive street festivals, benefit concerts, and other cultural events.
Physical Location
Harvard Repository
Immediate Source of Acquisition
The collection was deposited by Deborah Pacini Hernandez and Reebee Garofalo, 2019.
Content Description
This collection contains recordings, images, and documents related to Cuban rap (moña), rock, and to a lesser extent world music fusion collected by scholars Deborah Pacini Hernandez and Reebee Garafalo during fieldwork in the 1990s.
Processing Information
Processed by the Archive of World Music in consultation with Deborah Pacini.
- Title
- Cuban Rap and Rock in the 1990s: The Deborah Pacini Hernandez and Reebee Garofalo Collection
- Author
- Archive of World Music, Eda Kuhn Loeb Music Library, Harvard College Library
- Language of description
- eng
- EAD ID
- mus00050
Repository Details
Part of the Eda Kuhn Loeb Music Library Repository
The Eda Kuhn Loeb Music Library is the primary repository of musical materials at Harvard. The Music Library’s collecting mission is to serve music teaching and research programs in the Music Department and throughout the Faculty of Arts and Sciences. In addition, it supports the musical needs of the broader Harvard community as well as an international scholarly constituency. We collect books, musical scores, serial titles, sound recordings and video formats, microforms, and rare and archival materials that support research in a wide variety of musical disciplines including historical musicology, music theory, ethnomusicology, composition, and historically informed performance practice, as well as interdisciplinary areas related to music. The special collections include archival collections from the 19th, 20th and 21st century.
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