Who is Who in Timba

Vincenzo Perna - "Timba, The Sound of the Cuban Crisis" (2005)
Cherina Mastrantones, Feliciano Arango - "Cuban Timba, A Contemporary Bass Technique" (2008)
Kevin Moore - "Beyond Salsa Piano: The Cuban Timba Piano Revolution: Vol 1: Beinning - The Roots of the Piano Tumbao" (2009)
Maya Roy - "Cuban Music: From Son and Rumba to the Buena Vista Social Club and Timba Cubana"

Books by Fernando Ortiz Fernandez (1881- 1969)
prior to TIMBA that illuistrates the roots of Salsa and TIMBA

Los negros brujos (1906)
Los negros esclavos (1916)
Un catauro de cubanismos: Apuntes lexicográficos (1923)
Glosario de afronegrismos (1924)
Contrapunteo cubano del tabaco y el Azucar (1940; trans. Cuban Counterpoint: Tobacco and Sugar, 1995)
La Africania de la musica folklorica de Cuba (1950)
Los instrumentos de la musica afrocubana (1952-1955)
Nuevo catauro de cubanismos (1985)
Los negros curros (1986) (posthumous)