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We head to present-day Santiago de Cuba, where MANANA festival took place back in May, to see how dance music’s path through the decades has resulted in the scene’s most vibrant moment.

In the economically devastated early 90s, DJs like D'Joy de Cuba, Wichy de Vedado, and DJ Jigüe, found catharsis in a new community of parties, clubs, and sounds.

In the early 1960s, oscillators, Moog synths, and dusty old tapes helped to cultivate an electroacoustic movement in Cuban music.

Cuba's skate scene has no funding, very few resources and not much to speak of in terms of a skate park.

Gianna Toboni spent a few days last March on a riveting tour of Guantanamo Bay from the cellblock to the prison library.