A Legendary Cuban Music Venue Finds a Home on Broadway
By
Chase Harrison
“Buena Vista Social Club” puts Latin America on the musical theater map.
Where was the Buena Vista social club Ever since the 1997 release of Buena Vista Social Club, the album of Cuban golden age music that went on to become the best-selling world music record of all time, a global spotlight has been placed on the 1940s-era music venue referred to in the album’s name (and in the name of the group of musicians recruited to put it together). But in a 1999 documentary about the creation and reception of the album, locals struggled to agree on where, exactly, the long-defunct neighborhood club had been located, in pre-revolutionary Havana. Amid all the...
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