{"id":41538,"date":"2015-06-23T00:37:18","date_gmt":"2015-06-23T00:37:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=41538"},"modified":"2016-03-20T21:14:11","modified_gmt":"2016-03-20T21:14:11","slug":"drum-dream-girl-how-one-girls-courage-changed-music","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=41538","title":{"rendered":"Drum Dream Girl: How One Girl&#8217;s Courage Changed Music"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.hmhco.com\/shop\/books\/Drum-Dream-Girl\/97805441022934\" target=\"_blank\">Drum Dream Girl: How One Girl&#8217;s Courage Changed Music<\/a><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.hmhco.com\" target=\"_blank\">Houghton Mifflin Harcourt<\/a><br \/>\n2015-03-31<br \/>\n48 pages<br \/>\nHardcover ISBN-13\/ EAN: 9780544102293<br \/>\neBook ISBN-13\/ EAN: 9780544102286<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.margaritaengle.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Margarita Engle<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.rafaellopez-books.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Rafael L\u00f3pez<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.hmhco.com\/shop\/books\/Drum-Dream-Girl\/9780544102293\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.houghtonmifflinbooks.com\/assets\/product\/9780544102293_hres.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>In this picture book bursting with vibrance and rhythm, a girl dreams of playing the drums in 1930s <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Cuba\" target=\"_blank\">Cuba<\/a>, when the music-filled island had a taboo against female drummers.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Girls cannot be drummers. Long ago on an island filled with music, no one questioned that rule\u2014until the drum dream girl. In her city of drumbeats, she dreamed of pounding tall congas and tapping small bong\u00f3s. She had to keep quiet. She had to practice in secret. But when at last her dream-bright music was heard, everyone sang and danced and decided that both girls and boys should be free to drum and dream.<\/p>\n<p>Inspired by the childhood of Millo Castro Zaldarriaga, a Chinese-African-Cuban girl who broke Cuba&#8217;s traditional taboo against female drummers, <em>Drum Dream Girl<\/em> tells an inspiring true story for dreamers everywhere.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Drum Dream Girl: How One Girl&#8217;s Courage Changed Music Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 2015-03-31 48 pages Hardcover ISBN-13\/ EAN: 9780544102293 eBook ISBN-13\/ EAN: 9780544102286 Margarita Engle Rafael L\u00f3pez In this picture book bursting with vibrance and rhythm, a girl dreams of playing the drums in 1930s Cuba, when the music-filled island had a taboo against female [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,1245,11,21,8,15,25],"tags":[673,1135,20306,20308,1392,20307],"class_list":["post-41538","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-arts","category-biography","category-books","category-latincarib","category-media-archive","category-novels","category-women","tag-cuba","tag-houghton-mifflin-harcourt","tag-margarita-engle","tag-millo-castro-zaldarriaga","tag-music","tag-rafael-lopez"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41538","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=41538"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41538\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":45319,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41538\/revisions\/45319"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=41538"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=41538"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=41538"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}