Transplanted to Cuba, the music also made its own blends with local Cuban traditions.

It is 1929, and lectors have long been a Cuban tradition, a way to enhance manual labor with a bit of culture.

María Algeria has founded various cultural groups in order to try to preserve the Cuban traditions and has won several literary competitions.

Mr. Gonzalez's formidable technique and distinctive style owed as much to modern jazz as to Cuban musical traditions.

Boleros and "musica trova", a Cuban musical tradition, also have a very important place in musica Yucateca.

The Miss Cuban American pageant seeks to represent the best of Cuban traditions and ideals in exile.

Dining areas are decked out in a lively eclecticism that Mr. Gottardi says is part of the Cuban tradition.

Sofia chuckled, recalling her own special fifteenth-birthday bash, which had been completely overdone in the grandest of Cuban traditions.

He'll talk about various Cuban musical traditions: son, rumba, mambo, conga, charanga.

Finally, there is a Cuban tradition that's fast becoming a New York tradition.