| 摘要: | 音樂是一個社會文明的成果，也是一個國家或民族的表徵。它可以表現人類情緒，亦能反映出風土民情。然而，在古巴，一個加勒比海上的小島嶼，音樂所呈現的，不僅僅是如此。古巴的音樂，正如古巴民族的血液，摻有各式各樣不同的元素。是生長於斯的原住民、當年隨著委拉茲格斯遠征而來的白人，以及一批批被運往古巴的黑奴，在這塊土地上不斷的成長與交流，才造就古巴音樂豐富而多元的特性。
十九世紀，西班牙殖民勢力沒落，本土意識抬頭，使得許多屬於古巴自身的音樂，逐漸嶄露頭角，並在二十世紀二、三○年代大放異彩，登上了世界的舞台。這些曲種的變容與社會現象密不可分，藉由對曲種的探索，我們將啟開古巴歷史大門。而當世人大跳倫巴或輕踩著莎爾莎的同時，我們將更了解這些觸動世人心弦音符背後，所深藏的意義……
Music, kind of the civilization, is also the symbol of the nation. It can express our emotion, and somehow reflect the custom. But, in Cuba, a small island in the Caribbean, the music represents much more than this… The Music of Cuba, just like the blood of its nation, is mixed with all kind of elements. The red natives, the white conquerors and the black slaves, who came and grew in this land, were those who enhanced the variety of the Cuban music.
In the Nineteenth-Century, due to the collapse of the Spanish colonization and the rise of the localization, some Cuban music genres started to stand out, and even shined on the stage of the world later by the 1920’s and 1930’s. The developments of these music genres, actually, are strictly combined with the social phenomena. Through research of music genres, we shall open the door of Cuban history. While the world is dancing rumba or salsa, the secrets behind these music notes are waiting us to find out… |