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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... Carpentier , Juan Marinello , and Emilio Roig de Leuchsenring from the late 1920s . The first qualified valorization of Afrocuban arts by the intellectual elite and their acceptance as the valuable heritage of the entire nation date ...
... Carpentier and his contem- poraries is essential to the way Cuba is currently " imagined . " Many factors contributed to this ideological shift . The 1920s was a period of tremendous upheaval and unrest in Cuba , to such an extent that ...
... ( Carpentier 1946 , 137 ) . What for upwardly aspiring Hispanic Cubans seemed an uninteresting career option , however , held tremendous appeal for Afro- cubans . The fact that Cuba's white middle classes often chose to avoid careers as ...
... ( Carpentier 1946 , 152 ) ; other lesser - known artists and performers , including Esteban Penalver , Ulpiano Estrada , and Ber- nardino Vazquez , received similar sentences ( Deschamps Chapeaux 1971 , 115 ) . La Escalera suggests that ...
... Carpentier suggests that the overall sound of the danzdn is virtually identical to that of these earlier genres ( 1946 , 237 ) . All are performed in duple meter by orchestras of European instruments such as the violin , acoustic bass ...
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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 |