Preface; Introduction: Ride the High Country or "They Went Thataway"; Cowboy Codes: Straight & Pure & All Boy; When We were Young: Nostalgia & the Cowboy Hero; Arms & the Man: The Friendly Gun; Give Me My Boots & Saddles: Camp Cowboy; Tall in the Saddle: Romance on the Range; White Hats & White Heroes: Who Is That Other Guy?; Virgin Land: Landscape, Nature, & Masculinity; Corporate Cowboys & the Shaping of a Nation; Postscript - The Frontiersman (1938); List of Films Mentioned; References; Index.
Ned Sublette is the co-founder of the Qbadisc record label. He has co-produced the public radio program 'Afropop Worldwide' for seven years and travelled frequently to Cuba since 1990. He lives in New York City.
"Approachable both for readers new to the country's rich musical history and for devotees who have already succumbed to its rhythms." -- Booklist. "Told with humor, affection and authority, this account... is destined to become one of the definitive texts on the subject." -- Global Rhythm Magazine. "Essential... a solid, supremely lush effort." -- Publishers Weekly. "A magnificent labor of love and advocacy... Remarkably thorough yet genially readable." -- New York Times. "If you buy only one book on Cuba in your life... this is the one." -- Anne Louise Bardach, The Nation. "Sets a high standard for cultural studies... stimulating, well-informed and broad in scope." -- The Shepherd Express. "It was Cuba that turned the beat around, and thanks to Sublette any serious music fan will now know why." -- The New York Times Book Review. "(Sublette) has added a major work to the tiny canon of social histories of music -- perhaps even the grandest of them all." -- The Los Angeles Times.
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