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Guantanamo: Guantanamera, Mariana Grajales Airport, FC Guantanamo, Nguyen Van Troi Stadium,


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Chapters: Guantanamera, Mariana Grajales Airport, FC Guantanamo, Nguyen Van Troi Stadium, . Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 22. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: "Guantanamera" ("girl from Guantanamo") is perhaps the best known Cuban song and that country's most noted patriotic song. The music for the song is regularly attributed to Jose Fernandez Diaz, known as Joseito Fernandez, who claimed to have written it at various dates (consensus puts 1929 as its year of origin), and who used it regularly in one of his radio programs. Some American researchers claim that the song's structure actually came from Herminio "El Diablo" Garcia Wilson, who should be credited as a co-composer. Garcia's heirs took the matter to court decades later but lost the case: the Supreme Court of Cuba credited Fernandez as the sole composer of the music in 1993. Regardless of either claim, Fernandez can safely be claimed as being the first public promoter of the song, through his radio programs. As written by Jose Fernandez, the original lyrics to the song relate to a woman from Guantanamo, with whom he had a romantic relationship, and who eventually left him. The alleged real story behind these lyrics (or at least one of many versions of the song's origin that Fernandez suggested during his lifetime) is that she did not have a romantic interest in him, but merely a platonic one. If the details are to be believed, she had brought him a steak sandwich one day as a present to the radio station where he worked. He stared at some other woman (and attempted to flirt with her) while eating the sandwich, and his friend yanked it out of his hands in disgust, cursed him and left. He never saw her again. These words are rarely sung today. The history behind the chorus and its lyrics ("Guantanamera ... / Guajira Guantanam...More: http: //booksllc.net/?id=9368


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  • ISBN-13: 9781157193661
  • Publisher: Books LLC
  • Publisher Imprint: Books LLC
  • Height: 152 mm
  • Sub Title: Guantanamera, Mariana Grajales Airport, FC Guantanamo, Nguyen Van Troi Stadium,
  • Width: 229 mm
  • ISBN-10: 1157193668
  • Publisher Date: 15 Sep 2010
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Spine Width: 2 mm
  • Weight: 50 gr


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