Cuban culture

Cuban culture is a melting pot where cultural blend of 3 continents: Europe, Africa and Asia which has given this dimension of universality of the enjoying. From across the Ocean Sea arrived from Spain in the conquerors and their vessels as a result of this epic-no-bloodless Aboriginal disappeared in just 40 years, victims of unknown diseases, ill-treatment and fire of the coup and arcabuces of the swords. Then came, also in boats, African slaves brought over to meet the growing economy and already planted in the nineteenth century came culi Chinese, French settlers from Haiti fleeing from the armies of Toussaint L'Ouverture and later continued to arrive in Spanish Canary Islands , Galicia and other regions of the Iberian Peninsula and also arrived Americans, Swedes, Japanese, Jews and all this diversity arose unity, a distinctive culture that gesture, over the centuries and that is the product of the largest of the blending of cultures. Fernando Ortiz, a prominent Cuban scientist, he studied this process and called him transculturation.

Cuban culture has been lavish in personalities in all genres and cultural rights has given the world so much music as they are the forerunner of the so-popular salsa-and chachachá as writers and poets of the stature of Jose Maria Heredia, José Martí, Guillermo Cabrera Infante, Reinaldo Arenas, Dulce María Loynaz, Alejo Carpentier, José Lezama Lima, Nicolas Guillen or Eliseo Diego, and internationally renowned painters recognized as Wilfredo Lam, Rene Portocarrero and Tomas Valdes, or exponents of dance such as the National Ballet of Cuba.

The music is almost certainly the most widespread manifestation Cuban art in the world. Right from the early twentieth century Cuban music has expanded beyond the limits of the island and have since had similar success most of the rhythms that have emerged, establishing patterns even at the international level. Of the popular Cuban rhythms, the most widespread are the son, the danzón, the chachacha, mambo, the current salsa, which is a consequence of son. In addition, demonstrating the universality of Cuban culture, there is also a Cuban jazz, as well as a Cuban hip-hop and rap, with a very high level.

Another vision

The culture in Cuba is manifested in different areas. There are cities like Havana and Santiago de Cuba where he says his magic, comprising a mixture of Spanish with African, Asian and French so. But the very location of the country has favored the penetration of multiple external influences and currents. This may explain the projection of what local and international artistic and creative discourse of Cuba today.

In literature, fine art, ballet, film, there are big names inscribed on Cuban artists. In the field of music, Cuba enjoys universal recognition with the contribution of rhythms wide acceptance such as the danzón, the son, bolero, mambo and the cha cha cha, among others.

On the island are open 265 museums, over 100 art galleries, some 70 theaters, 120 publishing houses, 354 public libraries, 315 houses of culture, 46 art schools and an International School of Cinema in San Antonio de los Baños.

On the statement of UNESCO, the country has six cultural heritage of humanity: the Historic Center of Havana Vieja and the system of fortresses of the city, the historic center of Trinidad, the Valley of Ingenuity, the Castillo de San Pedro de Morro Rock, the ruins of French coffee in the Great Stone National Park and landing of the Granma.
The Cuban manifested in their cheerful nature and his innate sense of musicality and rhythm they have Lasal its ultimate expression in traditional festivals that are celebrated on the island. You can highlight the carnival of Santiago de Cuba, the Parrandas of Remedios and the feasts of the brass bands. All of them complement the cultural heritage of a country that is all music, partying, dancing and folklore.