Home›Sources›Prado Saldivar, "Afecto Caribeno / Caribbean Affect in Desi Arnaz's Babalu Aye," Sounding Out!, 2016SourcesPrado Saldivar, "Afecto Caribeno / Caribbean Affect in Desi Arnaz's Babalu Aye," Sounding Out!, 2016Citation FormatsGeneral ReferenceGeneral Reference Citation TextDivinity Atlas. "Prado Saldivar, "Afecto Caribeno / Caribbean Affect in Desi Arnaz's Babalu Aye," Sounding Out!, 2016." Accessed August 30, 2026. https://dev-divinity.interactiveatlas.org/sources/prado-saldivar-afecto-caribeno-babalu-aye-soundingout-2016.Copy General ReferenceAPA StyleAPA Style Citation TextDivinity Atlas. (n.d.). Prado Saldivar, "Afecto Caribeno / Caribbean Affect in Desi Arnaz's Babalu Aye," Sounding Out!, 2016. Retrieved August 30, 2026, from https://dev-divinity.interactiveatlas.org/sources/prado-saldivar-afecto-caribeno-babalu-aye-soundingout-2016Copy APA StyleBibTeXBibTeX Citation Text@misc{divinityatlas-prado-saldivar-afecto-caribeno-caribbean, author = {Divinity Atlas}, title = {Prado Saldivar, "Afecto Caribeno / Caribbean Affect in Desi Arnaz's Babalu Aye," Sounding Out!, 2016}, year = {2026}, url = {https://dev-divinity.interactiveatlas.org/sources/prado-saldivar-afecto-caribeno-babalu-aye-soundingout-2016}, note = {Accessed August 30, 2026} }Copy BibTeXAn essay on an academic sound studies group blog, read directly for this entry. Its strength is that it is written by an art historian and academic lecturer specifically analyzing the song's religious content and Desi Arnaz's own performance of it as devotional practice rather than pure entertainment. Its limit is that it is a blog format rather than a peer reviewed journal article, so it is cited here as a documented scholarly reading rather than as settled consensus, alongside the plainer bibliographic facts the Wikipedia source supplies.FactsClaims Backed By This Source (12 claims)Comments (0)Reader Challenges (0 open reader challenges)FactsAssessmentReliability TierWell-attested2Reliability tier 2: a named scholar publishing a signed essay on Sounding Out!, an established academic sound studies blog with editorial review, one step below a formally peer-reviewed journal.NotesWell-attestedChecked at its exact URL. Author Reina Alejandra Prado Saldivar is an art historian, curator and adjunct lecturer in Women, Gender and Sexuality Studies at California State University, Los Angeles, and in Critical Studies at CalArts. The essay argues Arnaz's television performances functioned as a genuine offering and healing ritual to Babalu-Aye, letting him reconnect with the Cuban heritage he had left behind, describing the song as conflating popular big band sound with a Cuban folk song sung to the orishas.CitationAuthorWell-attestedReina Alejandra Prado SaldivarPublisherWell-attestedSounding Out!Publication YearWell-attested2016URLWell-attestedhttps://soundstudiesblog.com/2016/03/21/afecto-caribeno-caribbean-affect-in-desi-arnaz-babalu-aye/Source TypeWell-attestedscholarly-blogClaims Backed By This Source (12 claims)This source backs 12 claims across the atlas. As facts: 10 well-attested. Plus 2 entities citing it as a general reference with no single fact or relationship attached.Disposition By TopicSources, 8 claims: 8 well-attested.Articles, 2 claims: 1 well-attested, 1 general references.Musical Works, 2 claims: 1 well-attested, 1 general references.Well-attested10ArticlesWhat a National Audience Heard Without Knowing ItMusical WorksBabalu (1939 Song)SourcesPrado Saldivar, "Afecto Caribeno / Caribbean Affect in Desi Arnaz's Babalu Aye," Sounding Out!, 2016General References2ArticlesWhat a National Audience Heard Without Knowing ItMusical WorksBabalu (1939 Song)Comments (0)No comments yet. Be the first to share a thought.Sign in to join the discussion.Reader Challenges (0 open reader challenges)No disputes yet. Spotted an error or a better source? Open the first one.Sign in to dispute this or suggest a correction.View At A Past YearThe atlas records no dated fact of its own for this entry, so there is no other year to choose.Show This Year