Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Acknowledgments ix
4. Introduction. So Near And Yet So Foreign 1
5. One. America’s Smartest City 23
6. Two. A Little Rumba Numba 53
7. Three. Music For The Eyes 73
8. Four. Mad For Mambo 102
9. Five. Cuba In Apt. 3-B 120
10. Six. Dirges In Bolero Time 139
11. Seven. Comic Comandantes, Exotic Exiles 158
12. Eight. Taste Of Cuba 182
13. Epilogue. Adams’s Apple 203
14. Notes 215
15. Index 227