Ned Sublette
Ned Sublette (born 1951) is an American
.Music performance
As a performer, Sublette is probably best known for fusing country-western and afro-Caribbean styles including
During the 1980s, he led the Ned Sublette Band, which played country with Cuban stylings. His "Cowboy Rumba" reached number one on World Music Charts Europe during December, 1999.[2] In 2006, Willie Nelson released Sublette's song "Cowboys Are Frequently, Secretly Fond of Each Other" in the wake of the success of Brokeback Mountain.[citation needed] He also performed an experimental radio "mash-up" in 1984 for the "Art on the Beach" series.[3]
Writing
His book on Cuban music, Cuba and Its Music: From the First Drums to the Mambo (
Awards
Sublette is a 2005 Guggenheim Fellow. In 2012 he was a Knight-Luce Fellow for Reporting on Global Religion at the University of Southern California. He did research in Angola, which resulted in a four-episode Hip Deep Angola radio series, produced for the public radio program Afropop Worldwide.[6]
Other works
Sublette starred in Vidas Perfectas, a Spanish-language version of Robert Ashley's 1983 "television opera" Perfect Lives, which premiered on stage at Irondale Theater, Brooklyn in December 2011, and which was to be shot for television in 2012.[7]
In October 2015, Sublette and his wife Constance published The American Slave Coast: A History of the Slave-Breeding Industry (
Discography
- Ships at Sea, Sailors and Shoes (Excellent, 1993)
- Monsters from the Deep (Excellent, 1997)
- Cowboy Rumba (Palm Pictures, 1999)
- Kiss You Down South (Postmambo, 2012)
References
- ^ Rockwell, John (9 December 1977). "New Music: Ned Sublette Presents a Ritual at the Kitchen". New York Times. Retrieved 13 January 2016.
- ^ "WORLD MUSIC CHARTS EUROPE".
- ^ Page, Tim (4 September 1984). "MUSIC: SUBLETTE PERFORMS IN 'ART ON THE BEACH' SERIES". New York Times.
- ^ Weisbard, Eric (31 October 2004). "The Ancestors of Pop". New York Times. Retrieved 13 January 2016.
- ^ Berry, Jason (17 February 2008). "Urban Gumbo: The World that Made New Orleans". New York Times. Retrieved 13 January 2016.
- ^ "A Musical Revelation". Kongo; Power and Majesty. Metropolitan Museum of Art. Retrieved 13 January 2016.
- ^ About Archived 2014-10-06 at the Wayback Machine, vidasperfectas.org. Accessed online 2 April 2012.
External links
- Ned Sublette at AllMusic
- Ned Sublette discography at Discogs
- Interview with Ned Sublette on Cuban music, WNYC, January 2009
- Interview with Ned Sublette by Prof. Joseph Roach of Yale University, 2005
- Interview with Ned Sublette by Prof. Vicki Mayer of Tulane University, 2005
- Interview with Ned Sublette by Garnette Cadogan in Bomb, Summer 2009, on New Orleans music, Mardi Gras, and history
- Ned Sublette performs songs at The Kitchen in New York City, June, 2006
- Review of The Year Before the Flood by Ingrid Norton
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