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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... began to brutally suppress all opposition groups in a bid to maintain power . By the early 1930s , his policies had contributed to a mass polarization of sentiment culminating in civil war . The war against Machado and his defeat in ...
... began disseminat- ing their own images of black street culture . Chapter 7 focuses on the elite compositions of the Minorista vanguard . This exclusive circle of painters , composers , and poets served as the intellectual center of the ...
... began to change dramatically toward the end of the eigh- teenth century . As a result of revolution in Haiti and new markets in the United States , vast commercial opportunities opened up for Cuba . Prior to the 1790s , Haiti had been ...
... began to take this possibility seriously enough to regulate music and dance performance . Municipal decrees restricting drumming and related activities affected both music making in the slave barracks and that of free blacks in the ...
... began , tended to be the most mar- ginal of the white elite and felt poorly represented by Spain . They were more willing to risk their lives and property than those living closer to the capital . Ironically , Cuban blacks also fought ...
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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 |