Buena Vista Social Club

This essay will discuss and analyse how far the album Buena Vista Social Club can be considered a great work, paying particular attention to the music on the album, the recording process and the impact and reactions of the Cuban public. In the year of 1997 the album BVSC was released and managed to sell 8 million copies. The album was produced by popular guitarist and film score composer Ry Cooder and featured 20 musicians. Ry Cooder had met Nick Gold, the world music producer who worked for World Circuit Records in 1996. Both Ry Cooder and Nick Gold had shared an interest in Malian and Cuban music. and as a result they both planned to record an album which featured both Malian and Cuban musicians, two musicians were invited to Cuba to…

Wilm Wenders documentary Buena Vista Social Club, encaptures the life of the forgotten musical greats in Cuban history. The crew of this documentary follow members such as Ibrahim Ferrer, a singer and Ruben Gonzalez a pianist. After learning about their lives growing up, their associating with music, and where they are now the group is reassembled to perform in the United States. This film documents Ry Cooder bringing together 10 well known and forgotten Cuban musicians to perform together.…

said. My heart was racing super fast as soon as me and my siblings pulled off the blankets off our face our faces froze for a second we saw a huge sign saying Walt Disney World Where Dreams Come True."SURPRISE!" My parents said. My siblings and I were in shock that we were brought to the happiest place on earth it brought out the little kid in me."Say cheese your on video" my parents. My siblings and I were lost for words it was like we were dreaming. "So we are in Orlando Florida?" I asked.…

For years I have listened to Spanish and Latin America music as it’s rhythms, beats, and tones place me into a state of happiness, and find myself daydreaming of foreign lands traveled stirring up good memories while, mind mapping a trip to Cuba in the near. Reviewing the syllabus as to prepare for this Spanish class, it was a relief to find the magic bullet number sixty nine seizing the desire or need to look any further. This last project coincidently, is my final class prior to graduation;…