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# Afro-Cuban rhythms coming to SMC
- URL: https://www.smdp.com/afro-cuban-rhythms-coming-to-smc/
- Published: 2006-04-19T15:00:00.000Z
- Updated: 2026-10-23T17:38:12.000Z
- Author: Guest Author
- Tags: Education, Downtown, #archive-import

*By Daily Press staff*

Dance to the beat of this drum: Santa Monica College is presenting “From Afro- Cuban Rhythms to Latin Jazz,” a lecture that traces the development of what is now called Latin Jazz.

The free event will be hosted by Dr. Raul Fernandez, a social sciences professor at the University of California at Irvine and a consultant on Latino musicians to the Smithsonian Institution. The lecture will be held at 7 p.m. on Thursday, April 27, at SMC’s Emeritus College, 1227 Second St. in downtown Santa Monica.

The title of the talk comes from Fernandez’s new book of the same name, published by the University of California Press. A book signing with refreshments follows the lecture, and books will be available for purchase.

In the book, Fernandez explores the complexity of Cuban dance music and the webs that connect it, historically and socially, to other Caribbean music, to Latin jazz and to salsa.

Fernandez also is the co-author of several other books, including “One Hundred Years of Chicano History: Empire, Nations and Migration” (2003) and “Latin Jazz: The Perfect Combination.”

The lecture is co-sponsored by the SMC Associates, a private organization that funds speakers and special programs on campus, and the University of California Press, one of the largest, most distinguished and most adventurous nonprofit publishers active today.

*Originally published in the Santa Monica Daily Press print edition on April 19, 2006.* [Read the original PDF.](https://s3.us-east-1.amazonaws.com/smdp%5Fbackissues/041906.pdf?ref=smdp.com)