HAVANA (AP) — From a two-room concrete home on the fringes of Cuba’s capital, the rumble of wooden drums spills out onto the streets. Neighbors gather at the door and kids climb a fence to peer inside ...
From a two-room concrete home on the fringes of Cuba’s capital, the rumble of wooden drums spills out onto the streets. Neighbors gather at the door and kids climb a fence to peer inside. They watch ...
Santería ceremonies are for calling out to the spiritual world, and that spiritual connection is made through music. Felix Contreras explores how... How Santería Seeped Into Latin Music All this week, ...
Priests and priestesses of the Afro-Cuban religion known as Santería have offered gifts to deities and asked for peace as ...
If a person gets sick, healers within the Santería tradition do spiritual cleansing to try to return somebody to health, ...
It’s a New Year tradition in Cuba: the "Letter of the Year" from the Santería priests. Dressed in their characteristic white, religious followers played drums and danced around an altar in Havana on ...
HAVANA — From a two-room concrete home on the fringes of Cuba’s capital, the rumble of wooden drums spills out onto the streets. Neighbors gather at the door and kids climb a fence to peer inside.
Santería might seem like an obscure occult practice akin to black magic or voodoo to the uninitiated. But for those with Caribbean roots, it's simply another aspect of the culture of our multifaceted ...
A recent federal court ruling cast an unusually sympathetic gaze on Santería, a family of Afro-Caribbean cultural and religious practices that most Americans learn about (or imagine they learn about) ...
All this week, Morning Edition is talking about drums and drummers. The third installment in "Beat Week" explores the beats used in Afro-Cuban Santería ceremonies. Our guide is Felix Contreras, ...
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