Cuban-america
Cuban-america / hosted by Leonard Pitts Jr.| production engineer Len Perskie| produced by Elisabeth Perez Luna. - SERIES: The Music of Miami| no. 10 Thirteen part radio series featuring the music and thoughts of Miami musicians and composers. Features interviews with musicians and composers, as well as live and recorded music and archival material. - CONTENT: The presence of several generations of Cuban exiles in Miami has given birth to musicians who are as famililar with rock and roll as with romantic Latin ballads. In this program we explore the cruss-cultural salsa of composer-singer Willie Chirino. Concludes with music of salsa bands on Calle Ocho, and the camp songstress Albita and more. - BROADCAST: Satellite, 8 Dec. 1995. Funded by the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation.