• Step one: Have no ideas.
  • Step two: Struggle to come up with some good ideas.
  • Step three: Suddenly lots of ideas start to arrive unexpectedly; write them all down.
  • Step four: Realize all ideas previously generated and written down were bad ideas.
  • Step five: Erase everything and start again.
  • Step six:

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Cultural Tourism, The Buena Vista Social Club, and Cuban Son

The culmination of my two years studying ethnomusicology at Wesleyan University was my Master’s Thesis, finished in April of 2005, entitled Tourist Songs: Cultural Tourism, The Buena Vista Social Club, and Cuban Son. I address the recent shifts in the Cuban policy on tourism, and observe the (many) ways in which these changes directly affect [...]

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