Teatro Tacón and creolized contradanza

1834-01-01 · 1834

In the 1830s, Captain-General Miguel Tacón built the grand theater that still bears his name, at Prado and San Rafael in Havana. Crowds went there to hear contradanzas that were already sounding Cuban, not only European. “the erection of the ornate theater at Prado and San Rafael that still bears his name, and where Cubans flocked to hear increasingly creolized contradanzas” — Ted Henken, music historian, “From Son to Salsa,” Latin American Research Review 41, no. 3 (2006), p. 189.

Genres: Contradanza