Celebrating MANANA in the City of Music: SUB.Culture: Cuba (Part 3)

In the the third and final installment of the series, we head to present-day Santiago de Cuba, where MANANA festival took place back in May, to see how dance music’s path through the decades has resulted in the scene’s most vibrant moment.

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[jayrags-soulfiesta]

Very nice insight and intro to Cuban based artists and DJs. But I would have thought since Cuba has so much soul, that House music(soulful) would be more easily and widespread then techno or edm. House and Afro-house is usually more appreciated by people that dance. Electronic(edm) and techno usually have thousands of people staring/facing the dj and not really dancing in a traditional sense. This is not an indication that I don't appreciate some EDM music but Cubans seem to have much more soul to widely accepte EDM over soulful House music that contain afro and latin inspired rhythms.