The blog Forgetful. Stories of Cuban music has been chosen by the Library of Congress of the United States to be included in its Web Archive, where those blogs and web pages that, due to their cultural, scientific or historical importance, must be preserved are selected.
The news was shared on the social network Facebook by the musicographer Rosa Marquetti Torres, one of the most solid and recognized researchers of the Cuban musical future and creator of the site in 2014.
Forgetful… (www.desmemoriados.com) has a hundred entries and is followed by musicians, music lovers and others interested in knowing stories, trajectories and details about figures, orchestras and Cuban musical events.
“I have proposed, through a language that I intend to be entertaining, but without missing rigor and depth in the analysis and exposition, to reach those who are interested in stories about Cuban music, young or old, people of any age and origin.
“forgetful It has been since its birth, interactive. It would not have been what it is today without the help and collaboration of many friends from many places, especially from Colombia, Puerto Rico, the United States or Spain, who have provided data, information, audiovisual material, as well as enthusiasm and complicity,” he confessed. Rosa Marquetti to the journalist Mayra A. Martínez.
Last August its author delivered her book Celia in Cuba (1925-1962) to the Library of Congress thanks to the efforts of Eva M. Reyes Cisneros. The specialist Tracy North, from the Cuba and the Caribbean area in the Hispanic room of that institution, received the copy and announced that the book will be referenced in the Hanbook of Latin American Studies 2023 published by the Library.
Located in the capital of the United States, the Library of Congress is the oldest cultural institution in the country. It preserves a universal collection of more than 17 million books and 95 million maps, manuscripts, photographs, films, audio recordings, prints, and drawings.
Rosa Marquetti has worked in record companies and collective copyright management entities. During the summer of 2022, she gave a series of lectures during the summer courses in Vermont, United States.
Thanks to the Florida International University (FIU) through the Díaz Ayala Collection and the Cuban Research Center, with the support of the Celia Cruz Foundation, the author presented her research on the first steps of the Guarachera in the city of Miami from Cuba.
