ALL1057-C First 6 Weeks Friday 3:00-4:20 Start Date 31-Jan
Grossman 115 Limit 25
The small island nation of Cuba has had a huge impact on music around the world. Our class time will be spent listening to the music, including danzón, rumba, son, conga, bolero, mambo, cha cha chá and timba. We will discuss how geography, cultural history, religion and politics affected its development and evolution, and we will look at how the music moved to other countries and evolved into Afro-Cuban jazz and salsa.
Coordinator: Greg Polanik 
A semi-professional musician by night, Greg has over 50 years of performance experience, and has studied music theory, jazz history and jazz improvisation. He has traveled to Havana three times to research Cuban music. Greg previously taught this course, with Corina, in 2019 and 2022.
Coordinator: Corina Iukovici 
Corina shares Greg’s love of Cuban music and Havana. She is doing research and working on the computer presentation for the class.
Corina coordinated, with Greg, their ALL course Jazz Fundamentals in 2015, 2020 and 2024.