Nationalizing Blackness: Afrocubanismo and Artistic Revolution in Havana, 1920-1940University of Pittsburgh Pre, 1998 M01 15 - 336 páginas Nationalizing Blackness uses the music of the 1920s and 1930s to examine Cuban society as it begins to embrace Afrocuban culture. Moore examines the public debate over “degenerate Africanisms” associated with comparas or carnival bands; similar controversies associated with son music; the history of blackface theater shows; the rise of afrocubanismo in the context of anti-imperialist nationalism and revolution against Gerardo Machado; the history of cabaret rumba; an overview of poetry, painting, and music inspired by Afrocuban street culture; and reactions of the black Cuban middle classes to afrocubanismo. He has collected numerous illustrations of early twentieth-century performers in Havana, many included in this book. Nationalizing Blackness represents one of the first politicized studies of twentieth-century culture in Cuba. It demonstrates how music can function as the center of racial and cultural conflict during the formation of a national identity. |
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... African descendants in the Americas — has become so central to national identity in various countries that continue to discriminate against them . I have not accomplished that goal to my satisfaction , but research in Havana taught me a ...
... African - influenced culture was almost entirely excluded . Much as Hobsbawm describes the turn of the cen- tury as decisive in the formulation of modern thought in many Western Euro- pean nations ( 1987 , 4 ) , the decade associated ...
... African - derived stylistic influences have been central to national musical production makes the study of music history in Cuba particularly rewarding . Given the past ( and present ) overrepresentation of Afrocubans themselves in ...
... African - derived culture in an abstract sense may have been essential to dominant conceptions of cubanidad beginning in the 1930s , but in many of its traditional forms it continued to be condemned as backward , lewd , or primitive ...
... African - derived musical traditions associated with traditional rumba and santerta ritual . Cuba's growing black middle classes also contributed to the nationalization of Afrocuban culture . Influential figures such as Ignacio Villa ...
Contenido
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COMPARSAS AND CARNIVAL IN THE NEW REPUBLIC Four Decades of Cultural Controversy | 62 |
ECHALE SALSITA Sones and Musical Revolution | 87 |
NATIONALIZING BLACKNESS The Vogue of Afrocubanismo | 114 |
THE RUMBA CRAZE Afrocuban Arts as International Popular Culture | 166 |
THE MINORISTA VANGUARD Modernism and Afrocubanismo | 191 |
CONCLUSION | 215 |
APPENDIX 1 | 229 |
NOTES | 243 |
GLOSSARY | 275 |
REFERENCES | 289 |
INDEX | 313 |
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Nationalizing Blackness: Afrocubanismo and Artistic Revolution in Havana ... Robin D. Moore Vista de fragmentos - 1997 |
Nationalizing Blackness: Afrocubanismo and Artistic Revolution in Havana ... Robin D. Moore Sin vista previa disponible - 1997 |