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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... associated with despised and isolated social groups ? —Peter Manuel , Popular Musics of the Non - Western World F or at least sixty years , Cuban intellectuals , politicians , and artists have defined their culture and society in terms ...
... associated with 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 ...
... 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 , Eusebia Cosme , and Rita Montaner ...
... associated with the Caribbean steel drum , many genres of Afrocuban popular expression rep- resent a site of mediation between distinct aesthetic systems and are thus able to satisfy the aesthetic preferences of " the culturally split ...
... associated with street parades and carnivalesque celebration . It begins with early accounts of comparsas as described by observers of Kings ' Day ( Dia de Reyes , 6 January ) slave festivities of the nineteenth century . It examines ...
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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 |